[pypy-dev] Re: Very long compilation on pypy

[Christian Tismer]

Arthur Peters wrote:

> Yes, it used ~430MB VM (I'm remembering this, so could be wrong); ~360MB
> of the was in RAM. My system has 512MB of RAM. It didn't swap and it
> constantly used ~100% CPU.

Nah, I (sorry) doubt this a little bit.
512 MB of RAM is definately not enough when you try to compile
PyPy without extra options.
You can get the memory requirements below 400 MB by using -t-lowmem.

At least this is my experience on a Windows laptop.

Did you see gcc in the task list, or was it still generating the C code?

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