[Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:

> ummm... shouldn't the compiling process use as much swap as needed if 
> real memory it too tight (aka not enough)??

Yes, and that's outside the remit of Lazarus etc.

> the swap size is what attracted my attention because normally swap is 
> the same or double what installed real memory is... eg: 16G RAM means 
> that 16G to 32G of swap is configured...

That's at the discretion of whoever built the distro, it's only a 
convention. Check the output of  swapon -s  and monitor console output 
for kernel messages suggesting there might be a problem.

In the case of Raspbian the swap is in a file rather than a separate 
partition, and I've got a vague recollection that it has to be 
explicitly enabled the first time the system is run.

If swap isn't working then something at the system level is broken. Once 
I'd hit on the right binaries and sources (initially, a patched 2.6.4) 
I've had no significant problems on either Raspbian or pukka Debian 
running on either a RPi 1 or 2 (3 not tested yet), with swap on either 
card or a USB-connected Flash stick.

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