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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add IceCat.
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"Jason Self" <jason@bluehome.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s said:
>> It succeeded on i686 but failed on x86_64 for unclear reasons
>> (the log doesn't show any error, but dmesg shows a couple of
>> OOMs...), so I=E2=80=99ve just restarted it.
>
> Lots of memory is probably needed. I haven't tried to compile
> IceCat but I recall the Mozilla instructions for Firefox saying
> that 4GB was required and that less may give memory errors during
> compile. I'm not sure how much RAM Hydra has.

As discussed on IRC, hydra.gnu.org has only 2 GiB of RAM.  I asked the
FSF sysadmins if they could increase it, but that=E2=80=99s not currently
possible.

I think we must really work towards connecting additional slaves now.

Ludo=E2=80=99.