Document Minimum Memory Required for Build Host
c-born opened this issue · 1 comments
Firstly, congratulations on the excellent documentation provided here on getting a build system up and running!
I've just bought a TP-600 for evaluation, knowing almost nothing about it, and wanting to get a "Hello World" program running, so following along with the instructions.
I set up a VM using the ISO and VMWare Workstation's Easy Install with default settings, except for setting the HD from 20GB to 50GB as recommended, however even after the "Now it's probably time to go home for the day"stage the build was still running the next day, and eventually crashed out.
Running ptxdist go without the q option and with j1 to constrain it to a single build at a time I found the compile where it was getting stuck, the problem looked like it was low on memory.
I then reconfigured the VM from the default 1GB memory and 1 CPU to 2GB memory (and 2 CPUs), ran ptxdist go again, and the problem compile was solved. (There was a later problem which I'll address in another Issue)
So from this, I suggest adding to the instructions a recommended minimum RAM of 2GB on a VM build host, it could save someone like me many hours trying to figure out what was going on!
Hi c-born! Thanks for the flowers!
You'll know more RAM is always better! ;)
But I'll will give a hint in the docu.