[yocto] poky consume all memory on redhat-based linux in virtualbox

[Chris Tapp]

On 22 Sep 2011, at 10:28, 蔡振军 wrote:

> Hi all,
>          When I tried to build image on Fedora and Scientific , I  
> encountered same problem that poky consume all memory and then  
> system became very slow. The poky process also moved on hardly.  
> After killing poky process, memory wasn’t freed. I had noticed that  
> some process like “cc1”  brought up by poky process were still  
> alive. Anybody know what’s the problem?

How much memory do you have? I've seen the build process peak at  
something like 2.5GB. I started running with a VM that only had 1GB  
allocated and had the same problem as this caused lots of swap file  
activity. It was mainly the compiler/linker that was using most of the  
memory, which would explain why you see 'cc1'. Don't forget that the  
build process fires off multiple processes.

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