Hi Andrey I can confirm that sage-6.6 was built successfully on an 8 year old pentium with 2GB of RAM and about 10 GB of swap, I was looking from time to time at the swap use during the ~15 hours built, I think almost 3GB was the top.
This was done with Debian Jessie, which I have to say, is the most stable OS I have ever seen, the whole machine was incredible slow during the built of sage, but in the end, everything (not only the sage built) was done as expected. I guess my Windows XP from 10 years ago would have completely frozen every 10 seconds ;-) Greetings, Georg On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 6:33:24 PM UTC+2, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > Hello, > > Up to Sage-6.5 I was able to build it on my old laptop with 2GB RAM. It > has swap as well, but I don't think it was used much, the wall time was > just a bit bigger than user+system, about 8-9 hours. > > With Sage-6.6 it gets stuck while processing rings directory: swap is not > full yet, but it seems that necessary stuff does not fit RAM anymore - > heavy disk usage, low CPU temperature, not much progress after more than a > day, top was showing "python setup.py" if I recall correctly consuming > 1.5GB RAM and over 2.5GB virtual memory. This consistent over several > attempts with "make distclean", with nothing running apart from MATE > session and a terminal window. > > I realize that supporting builds on such computers may not be a high > priority, if at all, but perhaps it is a manifestation of some bug. > > Besides, while 2GB total RAM seems small nowadays, 2GB/core is quite > common, especially with VMs. (In fact, all physical and virtual machines > that I use frequently happen to have exactly this number, ranging from > 2GB/1 core to 32GB/16 cores.) > > Thank you, > Andrey > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
