Re: [jamboost] M6: Memory Consumption

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-25 07:19:05

Hi Jürgen,

> I'm upgrading my projects to using M6 and found that memory consumption
> has increased dramatically.
>
> When building my biggest project (39339 Targets), bjam uses up
> 1346 (!) MB. 

Ouch!

> Fortunately, I have got 1 GB real memory at work, so this
> simply just makes my box unuseable due to excessive swapping.
>
> bjam used to build to whole project using up about 300 MB.
> Even this is a lot, considered I have only 256 MB real memory at home.
>
> Vladimir, what must I provide so you can debug this ?

First, I'm interested to know if this difference if observable if you run bjam 
with the "-n" switch. Second, it would be very interesting to find the exact
date at which bjam started to eat more memory than needed. I did not observe 
any such effect on my project.

- Volodya