Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] check-reqs.eclass: clamp MAKEOPTS for memory/RAM usage

[Sam James]

> On 4 Jan 2022, at 22:58, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
>
> Crank down MAKEOPTS jobs if MAKEOPTS="-jN" is too high for the
> amount of RAM available (uses amount declared as needed
> in the ebuild). Typically should be ~2GB per job.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/570534
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@g.o>
> ---
> eclass/check-reqs.eclass | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Note that we discussed this on GitHub a bit when I just posted it there
for some rough feedback: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23311 <https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23311>.

I think this is valuable for reducing invalid bug reports from OOM and
easing user experience.

Still kind of a WIP/rough draft, but may be ready in this state. Need
more testing, so not planning on pushing yet or anything.