[pypy-dev] Translating pypy-sandbox eats 13GB of RAM

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/21/11, David Naylor <naylor.b.david at 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.

3G is borderline for 64bit. I build pypy on 3G, but it requires
closing browsers etc.

>
>> 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
>>
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