From 6a489839a8852dc3428c53b0d35ead32e06dc1ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Bakke Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 23:32:04 +0200 Subject: gnu: ungoogled-chromium: Enable parallel build. ...but limit the memory usage. Tested with --cores=8 on a 16 GiB RAM machine. * gnu/packages/chromium.scm (ungoogled-chromium)[arguments]: Remove <#:parallel-build?>. Add "jumbo_file_merge_limit=8" in <#:configure-flags>. --- gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu/packages/chromium.scm') diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm index 90ce787416..d072fc58ad 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm @@ -408,9 +408,6 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE." (build-system gnu-build-system) (arguments `(#:tests? #f - ;; Chromiums build processes may consume up to 8GiB of memory per core. - ;; Disable parallel builds to avoid thrashing end user systems. - #:parallel-build? #f ;; FIXME: Chromiums RUNPATH lacks entries for some libraries, so ;; we have to disable validation and add a wrapper below. #:validate-runpath? #f @@ -467,6 +464,9 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE." ;; Optimize for building everything at once, as opposed to ;; incrementally for development. See "docs/jumbo.md". "use_jumbo_build=true" + ;; The default file merge limit of 50 requires huge amounts of RAM. + ;; Cap it to make sure the build succeeds on commodity hardware. + "jumbo_file_merge_limit=8" ;; Prefer system libraries. "use_system_freetype=true" -- cgit v1.2.3