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Hi,
When I follow the instructions to build the p6 compiler the make runs
forever.
$ make
...
rakudo/parrot_install/bin/parrot  src/gen/perl6.pbc --target=pir \
    src/gen/core.pm > src/gen/core.pir
This command never ends. It runs for 48 hours or more and then my laptop
overheats and shuts down.
I'm trying to build rel#27 on Ubuntu, with gcc4.4.1, libicu4.0.1 on my
laptop having 512MB ram+750MB swap. The build seems to encounter a lot of
memory thrashing.
Please let me know what is missing. This problem of thrashing seems to have
started since rel#25.
--
Karthik

  On March 24, 2010 14:53 , Karthik BP (via RT)

I encountered this problem some months back on a VM guest running Fedora
11.  Increasing the amount of RAM to 1024 MB solved the problem.  As is
true in your case, Rakudo had previously built fine with only 512 MB RAM
but over time swapping during the build got so bad that the build would
(effectively) never complete.  I strongly recommend increasing the
amount of memory to 1024 MB if you are going to build Rakudo; 512 MB is
more than sufficient for running it, however.

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                 Mark Montague
                 markm...@umich.edu

There were some parrot memory issues that were recently fixed; I'd
recommend doing a build with a new parrot and trying again to see if
that helps.

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

Sure. I'll try.
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Karthik

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Moritz Lenz via RT <

Yes Moritz.
It builds fine now. Thanks!
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Karthik

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Moritz Lenz via RT <