[Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 25.03.2016 um 11:19 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>> Bo Berglund wrote:
>>
>>>> It should be noted that the default swap file size of Raspbian is only
>>>> 100MB which combined with a possible GPU memory settings will occasionally
>>>> cause Lazarus builds to fail mysteriously.
>>> I originally had instructions for usage that specifically increased
>>> swap to 1000MB to get around this issue. But a forum user repeatedly
>>> claimed it was not necessary so I took tha part out and it does work
>>> on the RPi3 at least when I tried. Afetr all it has more RAM.
>>> But I agree that having bigger swap might not hurt anyway.
>> You'll generally need something like 512Mb of available memory, i.e. RAM + swap, with the linker in
>> particular benefiting from extra. Around here, I'm being firmly discouraged (by other colleagues
>> with an electronics background) from putting swap on the card, but instead putting it on an external
>> USB device with wear levelling.
>>
> 
> SD cards do wear leveling as well.

My understanding is that some do and some don't.

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