Re: [PATCH] Add Elixir (was: )

[Pjotr Prins]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:56:27AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:35:29PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> Never mind.  It was as Vincent thought.  Closing all applications except
> >> for Emacs makes it work.
> >
> > Be interesting to see what increasing swap space does. I think we
> > ought to file it as an issue if that does not help:
> >
> >   
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-dev/oom-killer-1911807.html
> 
> I increased swap space to 12G and it compiled most of the time.  It’s a
> bit odd.  Sometimes it would fail with
> 
>     == Compilation error on file lib/system.ex ==
>     ** (exit) :epipe
> 
> Other times it would get stuck compiling “lib/elixir/lib/system.ex”.
> But with enough swap space it mostly compiles Elixir just fine.

I'll post it as an issue. Swap space does not always act rational ;)

But they should not use so much RAM for compilation.

Pj.
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