Hi, On 18/10/16 13:49, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On mips and mipsel, we have more and more packages failing to build from > source with a "virtual memory exhausted" error in GCC, due to the 2GB > address space limit. It seems the occurrence is even higher since the > switch to GCC 6. The usual answer has been to play with the > ggc-min-expand GCC parameter, and many packages do that already [1]. > > The ggc-min expand parameter defaults to "30% + 70% * (RAM/1GB) with an > upper bound of 100% when RAM >= 1GB". In practice all of our build > daemons, but also most of the development machines (including the CI20 > board) are bound to 100%. I therefore wonder if we should change the > default at least for mips and mipsel in Debian, and maybe even upstream > for 32-bit architectures. > > Any opinion or comment about that? I think this is a good idea since it is almost "free" and we don't have to change lots of packages. I also think changing it on other 32-bit arches is a good idea, although they're not as affected as much since that have an extra 1GB of virtual memory. James
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