[bug #57853] GCC's build needs more than 8GB of RAM

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?57853>

                 Summary: GCC's build needs more than 8GB of RAM
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Tue 18 Feb 2020 05:20:22 PM UTC
                Category: Software
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Currently, on GNU/Linux systems, the software are built in the RAM, not on
HDD/SSD. This enables less pressure on the hard drives because there are so
many files involved, and also slightly speeds up the build.

However, on systems where there is only ~8GB of RAM, GCC will have a problem
and won't be able to build! We need to add a step when building GCC to check
the free space in RAM and if there isn't enough, it just uses the build
directory.

This bug was reported by Zahra Sharbaf.




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