From 5294f2080b9f03ce814657cb30e0e5e0f01c682d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: petevine Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:12:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README.md - RAM requirement on 32-bit *nix Running `/usr/bin/time -v make` to build rust (using local llvm) shows the maximum memory usage at 715 megabytes on 32-bit x86 (on arm linux it's even less @ 580M). Reworded according to @brson's input. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8eb742f0a22..6e5e1ca0c32 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms: You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work. -Rust currently needs about 1.5 GiB of RAM to build without swapping; if it hits +Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. If it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build. There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].