Re: [Boost-build] bjam memory usage

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-14 12:35:10

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Currently, running the boost regression tests makes bjam use an impressive 
> amount of 1273MB (!!!) of memory on my system.
> 
> I know there have been discussions of this excessive memory usage in the 
> past. Among other things, using some special memory management library was 
> discussed, is this still being pursued?

Dave mentioned he might look at why it crashes when using boehmgc. But 
as we all know he's a busy person ;-) If any one else is brave enough, 
they can try it out with the svn bjam version (3.1.15), just by adding 
--gc when building bjam.

NOTE; Using boehmgc does help, when I run with it, it does use less 
memory. It just crashes at some point :-(

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