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    [–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Once tortured myself with having to go through...

    The Android build system. Booo, scary.

    I only wanted a LineageOS boot image built. The recommended specs list 64GiB RAM. Figured wouldn't apply to me until I tried to build a target literally called "nothing". It just used up all of the RAM and OOMed about 2 minutes in, building the "build cache" or whatever the fuck it needs to do to "warm up".

    After a few fucktons of swapspace, turning off some of my daemons, some sysctl fuckery (there were options for limiting process virtual memory size IIRC? I put it all the way up) and taskset -p 0-15:1 (use logical CPUs 0, 2, 4...), I had my laptop allocating 50 something GiB. I have 16GB (decimal) physical RAM installed and I consider that already way too much for my usual needs.

    After about half an hour of the build system build systeming, it just stopped doing that then built the kernel in 4 minutes with everything else in some time too.

    Yes, I have tried just running make directly. That just resulted in an image that did nothing but toggle on and off an empty (no percentage) charging circle via power button.