On 11/21/11, David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
While trying to translate pypy-1.7 with the sandbox option, using pypy-1.6 I saw the translating pypy consume 13.3GB of memory (column Res in top). This is under FreeBSD-9RC2/amd64.
I also get a lot of memory use when building pypy 1.6 on a 64 bit Debian system with gcc 4.4.5. The machine has 3 Gigabytes of physmem. I let one build attempt run for 2 or 3 days before killing it. The same system built pypy OK with a 32 bit OS, though they were builds of nearby pypy trunk's, not 1.6.
I've never noticed this memory consumtion when translating pypy-1.6 with the stackless option.
Is this perhaps a bug with pypy-1.6 or the source code for pypy-1.7? I'll try again using pypy-1.7 to do the translating once it has been translated (I needed to restart since I was running the translations in parallel).
Regards