Failure to build libjava on 512MB machine

Wed Jan 31 13:24:00 GMT 2007

Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 512MB is *certainly* resonable. It's the most common amount of 
> shipping RAM
> for in esp. notebooks and it's what usually get's allocated to 
> virtualization
> solutions.

I agree 512M is reasonable (really a compiler taking more than
half a gigabyte for any normal sources is a bit wanton). But
in any case the memory requirement was only 550M here, not so
bad, and should be easily compilable on a 512M machine. Seems
like we still don't understand the problem here.
The complaint about building libjava taking too long is really
a separate issue, the question for this thread is to understand
why there was a failure, and as far as I can see we still don't
understand that.