Re: make doc problem

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden>
To: "Julien Rioux" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: make doc problem


> On 22/01/2012 20:58, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > Thanks, you're quite right CPU is not the limiting factor for the
> > build. Disk access and usage of swap when compiling
> > input/regression/collated-files slows down the build to a crawl for me.
>
> The problem here is that lilypond builds up memory from 400MB to ~1GB
> without releasing...
> Most of these allocations don't seem to be memory leaks, but rather due
> to guile.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold

It only takes that amount of memory for big builds.  I've never seen much 
over 1 Gig total memory during a make with 8 CPUs all running lilypond.

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Phil Holmes