On Monday, 21 November 2011 18:30:31 David Naylor 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.
This isn't specific to the sandbox option. The default options used also cause this memory usage. On a box with 16GB of RAM the translation was causing extensive swapping (I estimate a peak memory of ~15GB). This seems to happen during jitcodewriter.
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).
I will also run a comparitive build with python-2.7 and report back...