On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 02:09:29PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> On January 25, 2020 1:52:03 PM PST, Steve Kargl 
> <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 01:41:16PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> >> 
> >> It's not just poudeiere. Standard port builds of chromium, rust
> >> and thunderbird also fail on my machines with less than 8 GB.
> >>
> >
> >Interesting.  I routinely build chromium, rust, firefox,
> >llvm and few other resource-hunger ports on a i386-freebsd
> >laptop with 3.4 GB available memory.  This is done with
> >chrome running with a few tabs swallowing a 1-1.5 GB of
> >memory.  No issues.  
> 
> Number of threads makes a difference too. How many core/threads does your 
> laptop have?

2 cores.

> Reducing number of concurrent threads allowed my builds to complete
> on the 5 GB machine. My build machines have 4 cores, 1 thread per
> core. Reducing concurrent threads circumvented the issue. 

I use portmaster, and AFIACT, it uses 'make -j 2' for the build.
Laptop isn't doing too much, but an update and browsing.  It does
take a long time especially if building llvm is required.

-- 
Steve
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