Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:51:49PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >>> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux >>> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory. >> >> I believe if we limit the unpacking process to not more than 8 cores we >> can avoid that problem. > > Also, this is very much a defect of xz; on ‘core-updates’, > ‘patch-and-repack’ uses zstd, which is much less memory-hungry and more > predictable. I was about to write this; thanks for be6g faster :-). I believe the unpacking should now be fine even for i686, Leo? -- Thanks, Maxim
