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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Elixir (was: )
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:56:27AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>=20
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>=20
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:35:29PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> Never mind.  It was as Vincent thought.  Closing all applications ex=
cept
> >> for Emacs makes it work.
> >
> > Be interesting to see what increasing swap space does. I think we
> > ought to file it as an issue if that does not help:
> >
> >   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-dev/oom-=
killer-1911807.html
>=20
> I increased swap space to 12G and it compiled most of the time.  It=E2=80=
=99s a
> bit odd.  Sometimes it would fail with
>=20
>     =3D=3D Compilation error on file lib/system.ex =3D=3D
>     ** (exit) :epipe
>=20
> Other times it would get stuck compiling =E2=80=9Clib/elixir/lib/system=
.ex=E2=80=9D.
> But with enough swap space it mostly compiles Elixir just fine.

I'll post it as an issue. Swap space does not always act rational ;)

But they should not use so much RAM for compilation.

Pj.
--=20