When compiling multiple source files

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 13:30:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-08-20 13:21, John Colvin wrote:
>
>> Only 2GB
>>
>> It can work... but I have to close everything else running 
>> first,
>> otherwise it locks everything up and then crashes out 
>> complaining about
>> not having enough memory to fork.
>
> Hmm, I'm pretty sure I have compiled Phobos on my MacBook, 
> which only has 2GB.

Just from looking at htop while compiling, it looks like it uses 
approx. 800MB to compile phobos. It's not unusual for me to have 
a lot less than that free at any given time.

The interesting thing is that it crashes instead of just 
swapping...