On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> swedebu...@riseup.net skribis:
> 
> > 1) 2 builds ran out of memory (qt 5.5.1 and webgtk)
> 
> I think WebKit typically requires 4G+ of RAM.

Also, some packages use huge amounts of disk space while building. For
example, I had to restart a libreoffice build after ~5 hours because it
didn't fit in my 3 GiB /tmp.

> 
> > 2) diskspace consumption is larger than I expected
> > 3) It takes weeks to complete it seems (after 8 days so far <50% done)
> >
> > *I have P4 2 core 3,2GHz, 1GB ram, 1GB swap and 40GB partition
> >
> > I heard from fps (after partitioning) that his x86_64 builds size
> > about 70GB in total.
> 
> Sounds like a good estimate (I don’t have any better figure actually
> ;-)).
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

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