Johan, I often have to try to build it a few times before it succeeds (on Linux). And I used an old Ryzen 7 1700X with 16 threads, 16GB. I have now upgraded it, but I haven't built webkit yet. I'm really scared of it :)
So limiting the threads seems like a good idea. Em qua., 24 de abr. de 2024 às 04:23, Johan Vos <johan....@gluonhq.com> escreveu: > Hi, > > When building WebKit from the sources, the perl script that invokes the > cmake/make build (build-webkit) will by default set the number of build > threads to the number of available cores. > This is often a bad idea, e.g. with 20 cores and 32GB this leads to a > freeze of the system. > > As far as I know, we do not allow passing the number of parallel build > threads (I typically modify them in the perl script). We already have the > "NUM_COMPILE_THREADS" property in the build.gradle but we do not use that > when building webkit. We only pass `--cmakeargs` to the buildscript, and > the number of threads is set via e.g. `--makeargs=-j16` > > Is there a known other way to do this, or should we add passing the > NUM_COMPILE_THREADS via `--makeargs` in the build.gradle? > > - Johan >
