[Scons-users] Running out of memory while profiling a build. Suggestions?

[William Deegan]

Mark,
On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Mark Ribau <mribau at realtaentertainment.com> wrote:


> We are attempting to profile our builds, in order to optimize our really really long build times.  We suspect that our custom builders are the particular slow point, but we are unsure which. (We have a number of custom builders, and now that we are fully content populated, our formerly fast builds are very slow. We are hoping that it's not simply that we have lots of content and that we just made some poor decisions in implementing some builders.)

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> Unfortunately, doing --profile=profile.txt ends up yielding an out of memory error, while a normal build doesn't.

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> Our machines already have maxed out their RAM at 16GB. Googling mostly indicates that Python has no memory max, however most Windows 32-bit processes have a max of 2GB (3GB w/ a boot option). We are currently using Python Standalone 2.7.1 (https://sites.google.com/site/basiclabbook/pythonstandalone) 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit. 

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> Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.


Run 64 bit python?
See here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/

-Bill


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