The relevant number is RSS, not virtual memory (really: addressing space). Virtual memory includes mmaps that don't actually use ram. Docbuild effectively uses about 2GB RSS.
On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 1:02:11 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > I did a little experiment to see how much memory the docbuilder needs. I > did this for a single-threaded operation. I measured the smallest value > N such that ( ulimit -v N; make doc ) works, after make doc-clean. > > In Sage 6.8: 2700000 > In Sage 6.9.rc0: 2800000 > > So Sage needs almost 3GB of (virtual) memory to build the documentation. > This is really bad, but it didn't get much worse recently. > > Jeroen. > -- 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.
