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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-03-31 05:59:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-03-31 06:02:35 +0200 |
| commit | 4babd0813788770a0a57a108208647f73c106a18 (patch) | |
| tree | cb00295dc22c43be1bbd5a696186b115fa433e59 /doc | |
| parent | 25333a26197b55c23debb38740ed875999aa795a (diff) | |
doc: Add note about memory reqs for compilation
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build-unix.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md index 31159d44b1..b957baa91c 100644 --- a/doc/build-unix.md +++ b/doc/build-unix.md @@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ Licenses of statically linked libraries: - protobuf 2.5.0 - libqrencode 3.2.0 +System requirements +-------------------- + +C++ compilers are memory-hungry. It is recommended to have at least 1 GB of +memory available when compiling Bitcoin Core. With 512MB of memory or less +compilation will take much longer due to swap thrashing. + Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian ---------------------------------------------- Build requirements: |