Re: [Boost-build] bjam memory usage

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-14 05:19:44

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> 
>> Currently, running the boost regression tests makes bjam use an impressive
>> amount of 1273MB (!!!) of memory on my system.
> 
> What are the exact command line options to bjam.

/vol2/boost/boost/tools/jam/src/bin.osf/bjam --v2 
-sBOOST_BUILD_PATH=/vol2/boost -sBOOST_ROOT=/vol2/boost/boost 
hp_cxx-71_006_tru64 hp_cxx-65_042_tru64 -d2 --dump-tests 
-sBZIP2_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include -sBZIP2_LIBPATH=/usr/local/lib 
-sZLIB_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include -sZLIB_LIBPATH=/usr/local/zlib 
--build-dir=/vol2/boost/results

>Trunk or RC? Does

Trunk. Is there a current RC branch at the moment?

> this seem like a new problem?

No, bjam has always used insane amounts of memory when running the 
regression tests, it's just more exaggerated because of the increased 
amount of tests since 1.34.

Markus