[desktop-discuss] System requirements to build JDS

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Patrick Ale wrote:
> I had some interesting things going on the last two days while
> building SUNWevolution. It'd fail at random points of XML generation
> which I fixed by adding an extra gigabyte of swap to my system.
>
> Which makes me wonder, what are the essentials, hardware wise, to build JDS?

I don't know the answer to this, but it is worth noticing that by 
default /tmp on Solaris is mounted on swap.  This means that temporary 
files borrow from virtual memory (which the compiler also needs). 
Compilers and other tools create large temporary files.  The TMPDIR 
environment variable can be used to cause applications to use a 
different directory for their temporary files such as a filesystem 
with a lot of space.  Depending on the memory limits of your system, 
it may be useful to increase swap, or to set TMPDIR to some other 
location.

Solaris makes it very easy to add more swap (via 'swap' command or 
ZFS) so increasing swap to more reasonable levels may be a good first 
step.

Bob
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