[llvm-dev] Recommended computer resources to build llvm

Bruce Hoult via llvm-dev
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:06:13 -0000

That's a reasonably well resourced machine, though the last couple of years
I've been spec'ing quad core (plus HT) machines with 32 GB rather than
16
GB, and you've got 50% more cores.

Still that should be plenty for 12 compiler instances. I suspect the
problem is something else, such as link steps.

I haven't looked at the actual ninja rules, but you can specify a smaller
"-j" setting for particular kinds of build steps. See:

https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_pool

I have no idea whether the llvm ninja rules currently include something
like that.


On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Wink Saville via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> I've got a i7 with 12 logical cores and 16GB of RAM I successfully
> built RELEASE_390/final but for the last 100 or so files I'd to use
> "ninja -j2" so as not to keep from swapping in the best case and
and
> in the worst case the build kills itself without completing because
> apparently its run out of memory.
>
> For the first 3200 files or so it was doing just fine with
"ninja"
> which is probably "ninja -j12" but as I said for the last 100 or
so
> files I had to use "ninja -j2" to get it to complete.
>
> So what is the recommended computer resources, and I guess RAM size in
> particular, for building llvm "quickly"?
>
> -- wink
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