Hi,

On 18.10.2017 04:39, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how much memory does your build system have?

8GB, with 32bit Ubuntu.

'top' says:

KiB Mem :  7973868 total,  7739960 free,    44100 used,   189808 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  1046524 total,  1046524 free,        0 used.  7347712 avail Mem
 
> I changed the compression algorithm and it will now use up to ~370MB of
> memory (probably times the number of processor cores you have).

'lscpu' says:

Architecture:          i686
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                8
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    4
Socket(s):             1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 42
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Stepping:              7
CPU MHz:               1600.921
CPU max MHz:           3800.0000
CPU min MHz:           1600.0000
BogoMIPS:              6784.18
Virtualisation:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              8192K

> If that is too much, we need to change this to something lower again.
> The benefit right now is, that the ISO image is about 15 MB smaller.

Anything I could test?

Best,
Matthias

> -Michael
> 
> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 04:39 +0200, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Current 'next' always gives me:
>> 
>> ***SNIP***
>> ...
>>     tar -c -C / --files-from=/tmp/ROOTFILES \
>>     -f /ipfire.tar --exclude='#*' --exclude='dev/pts/*' \
>>     --exclude='proc/*' --exclude='tmp/ROOTFILES'
>>     rm -f /tmp/ROOTFILES
>>     tar -x -C /tmp -f /ipfire.tar
>>     rm -f /ipfire.tar
>>     cd /tmp && tar  cf /install/cdrom/distro.img --xz * && rm -rf *
>>     xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory
>>     make: *** [cdrom:75: /usr/src/log/cdrom] Error 141
>> ...
>> ***SNAP***
>> 
>> Building on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS / 32bit.
>> 
>> Can anyone confirm?
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
>