How much memory to compile www/chromium?

[bob prohaska]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:25:04PM +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## bob prohaska (fbsd at www.zefox.net):
> 
> > > See bsd.ports.mk: DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (as in "make -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS").
> > >
> > Thank you, I think that's the information needed. Come to think of it, 
> > will the -j option, such as -j2, work in this situation also? Two threads
> > are much better than one 8-)
> 
> If you had looked into bsd.port.mk yourself... right below the docs of
> DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (line 814) is some documentation for MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER
> and MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT. -j won't help because there's a lot of

Setting MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2 seems to have the desired effect. Still,
top reports four c++ processes, but only two are running and swap use 
seldom exceeds 1GB at worst. So far, that's been enough to prevent stalling.

Editing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk looks like it'll affect all ports;
what's the convention for making the change local to www/chromium only?

Thanks for your patience!

bob prohaska