JAM vfork: Out of memory

[bbjimmy]

jam on r27011 real hardware install with 448 MB of memory ....

patience... patience... found 66238 target(s) updating 8855 target(s) InitScript1 generated/haiku.image-init-vars vfork: Out of memory

[bbjimmy]

screenshot with activity monitor

[anevilyak]

This won't work until swap support is complete. jam on its own needs around 550MB to do its build calculations and fork, ignoring the rest of the OS, cache, etc, as a result of which this currently won't be doable with less than ~800MB-1GB of RAM.

[bbjimmy]

This may be true, but it still needs to be fixed before Alpha 1 release

[anevilyak]

Yes, but it's already a well known issue with other bugs tracking it in the system. It may have been more accurate to close this as a duplicate but I couldn't find the ticket number offhand.

[bbjimmy]

ticked #1972 perhaps

[umccullough]

Replying to bbjimmy:

This may be true, but it still needs to be fixed before Alpha 1 release

It's already present on the proposals page (Prop #8):

http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/Alpha1Proposals#Prop8:FinishandIncludeSwapFileSupport

Currently there is a GSoC student working on it under the mentorship of Ingo I believe.

[anevilyak]

Correct and it's getting relatively close to being able to be turned on from what I've seen. Hopefully in the next few weeks.