I think it's just a very memory-intensive crate to compile, the disk activity and the slowness is likely due to swapping. Try giving your VM 4 GB of RAM if possible, should work better like that.
Cheers, Botond On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 5:35 PM <mden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm following these directions: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build/Linux_and_MacOS_build_preparation > > I'm running a 64 bit Ubuntu 19.10 VM in Virtualbox. It has 2 GB of RAM, 4 GB > of swap and over 400 GB free disk. After running ./mach build it goes along > compiling happily for about 50 minutes until it gets to this point: > > 0:16.81 toolkit/library/rust/force-cargo-library-build > 0:33.85 Compiling style v0.0.1 > (/home/michele/mozilla-central/servo/components/style) > ^Cmach interrupted by signal or user action. Stopping. > > and hangs (or at least stops for over three hours before I had to ctrl-C out > of it.) CPU goes to 100% and the disk activity light is on solid. I have > installed all the prerequisites in the build guide. Any idea what's going on > here? > _______________________________________________ > dev-builds mailing list > dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
