[Bug ld/22831] ld causes massive thrashing if object files are not fully memory-resident: new algorithm needed

[lkcl at lkcl dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831

--- Comment #15 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl dot net> ---
(In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #14)
> (In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #13)
> >  i have 16 GB of DDR4 2400 mhz RAM on my laptop... and because when
> > that system goes into swap (it has an NVMe) its loadavg goes over 120
> > and it is absolutely guaranteed to crash about 30 seconds later,
> > adding more RAM is *not* the solution.
> > 
> >  however much more RAM is added, there *will* be a piece of software
> > within 1-5 years which requires more RAM for the linker phase than any
> > system provides.
> > 
> 
> Please try if "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" works.

i'll alert some people and see if they are in a position to try that.

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