RAM footprint

Posted Jan 29, 2018 17:11 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: RAM footprint by giraffedata
Parent article: Shrinking the kernel with link-time optimization

16 GB RAM might not be "puny", I agree, but that was enough to build chromium without touching swap. Swapping would be murdering performance (and probably hardware) so I made sure to avoid it :) But nothing drastic, I could still comfortably work on it on other stuff.

Building gcc itself, on the other hand...