Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs building 3.6.5.1 - swapping and out of virtual memory

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 07/29/2013 12:40 PM, M Dammer wrote:
> Not sure if this is a Pybombs or Gnuradio build issue: When building
> version 3.6.5.1 via pybombs the system starts swapping after about 70%
> of the build have completed and even sometimes bails out with "out of
> virtual memory". I can complete the build by restarting pybombs install
> - sometimes several times.
> I am building on XUbuntu 12.04 64bit - both machines have 4Gb RAM.
> I notice that "top" shows several cc1plus processes running in parallel
> each consuming over 1Gb of memory.
Try adding more swap space.

GCC goes all memory-hungry when it's compiling some of the SWIG output 
in Gnu Radio.  And if pybombs is running parallel builds that will
  add more pressure on VM.





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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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