Hardware configuration to build AOSP master branch

[Alice]

Hi,

I have a Macbook Pro retina with an i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 500GB SDD. Is this hardware not good enough for building the master branch of AOSP? After increasing the maximum java heap space to 4GB, I was able to make (I was using "make -j4") for the emulator (aosp_arm-eng), but with anything else I keep getting out of memory errors or some jack server errors. Is there anything I can do to overcome this situation or should I simply give up on building on this hardware configuration?

Thanks!

[PeterK]

I build using a Macbook Pro (late 2011) with 8GB RAM and Ubuntu 14.04 and it seems to build fine with make -j4. I don't build from the master branch though - only Marshmallow at the moment.

I believe the minimum recommended spec is 16GB RAM, so your milage might vary. It's worth checking that no other software is using up your RAM.

http://source.android.com/source/requirements.html

Pete.