[pypy-commit] pypy default: Update FAQ

[arigo]

Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r72254:66bf42b5d051
Date: 2014-06-27 22:34 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/66bf42b5d051/

Log:	Update FAQ

diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
@@ -465,9 +465,13 @@
 
 This is documented (here__ and here__).  It needs 4 GB of RAM to run
 "rpython targetpypystandalone" on top of PyPy, a bit more when running
-on CPython.  If you have less than 4 GB it will just swap forever (or
-fail if you don't have enough swap).  On 32-bit, divide the numbers by
-two.
+on top of CPython.  If you have less than 4 GB free, it will just swap
+forever (or fail if you don't have enough swap).  And we mean *free:*
+if the machine has 4 GB *in total,* then it will swap.
+
+On 32-bit, divide the numbers by two.  (We didn't try recently, but in
+the past it was possible to compile a 32-bit version on a 2 GB Linux
+machine with nothing else running: no Gnome/KDE, for example.)
 
 .. __: http://pypy.org/download.html#building-from-source
 .. __: https://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting-started-python.html#translating-the-pypy-python-interpreter