[Bug ld/22831] ld causes massive thrashing if object files are not fully memory-resident: new algorithm needed

[hjl.tools at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831

--- Comment #14 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #13)
>  i have 16 GB of DDR4 2400 mhz RAM on my laptop... and because when
> that system goes into swap (it has an NVMe) its loadavg goes over 120
> and it is absolutely guaranteed to crash about 30 seconds later,
> adding more RAM is *not* the solution.
> 
>  however much more RAM is added, there *will* be a piece of software
> within 1-5 years which requires more RAM for the linker phase than any
> system provides.
> 

Please try if "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" works.

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