Re: Okay, how much ram does it take to build Rust?

On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:42:37 -0700
"Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey there folks,
> 
> I've got poudriere running on a recently-16-ified VM with 8 cores and
> 48G ram (up from 32), and to eat the dogfood I'm attempting to build
> all my own packages.
> 
> lang/rust is a big one.  It pontificates for about two hours, then
> dies with:
> 
[...]
> 
> Is this actually likely an LLVM bug, or is 48G of ram not enough (it
> barely climbed at all for most of the files).  Note that I'm not
> doing anything multi-threaded with Poudriere, this is single CPU
> bound.

FWIW, Until January – when I got the RAM extended – I have successfully
been building Rust on a 16GB machine with 4 core i7 Kaby Lake CPU.

/Piotr