[Rock-dev] 2GB + Autoproj + Ruby 1.9

[Matthias Goldhoorn]

Additionally ruby1.9 has currently no rubyQT Supoort, so all GUIs stop 
workung if you user ruby1.9

Matthias

On 23.05.2011 13:10, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> the problem is not ruby at all. If you look at top,
> you'll see that ruby takes only a few megs. The
> problem comes from gcc. In heavily templated
> code gcc can take up to 1 gig of mem per thread.
> As autoproj spawns per cpu in the system one
> thread, you'll may need a lot of memory if you
> own a dual or quadcore. The solution is setting
> Autobuild.parallel_build_level = 1
> in the init.rb in the autoproj directory.
> Greetings
>       Janosch
>
> On 23.05.2011 12:44, Chris Mueller wrote:
>    
>> Hio,
>>
>> i have currently some performance issues with autoproj for building my
>> complete setup
>> for AVALON and RIMRES. Some bigger packages always seems to consume all
>> of my available
>> 2 GB RAM and it's impossible to run other application because the
>> building process take of the
>> complete control of my notebook and freezes (until i abort the process).
>>
>> After that i start cmake manually and it works fine without blocking the
>> complete system.
>>
>> I'm not sure if 2 GB RAM are addressed to be insufficient, but i'm
>> currently searching for improving
>> my current situation.
>>
>> I'm playing with the idea to switch to the newer Ruby 1.9 branch in
>> order to benefit from the more
>> effective interpreter implemenation (and hoping it's garbage collector
>> is a little more efficient).
>>
>> Unfortanetly switching to another ruby version is also a little risk to
>> break the setup because of
>> some incompabilities. Before trying i would like to ask if there are
>> already some people here
>> using the complete rock toolchain with ruby 1.9 and can share some
>> experiences.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Chris
>>
>>
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>
>    


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