Bryce Harrington wrote:

I'm not sure if this was just the machine I was testing on, but the memory usage during linking appears to be fairly intensive. The system was low on swap space, and compilation actually triggered the OOM killer. I had the machine pretty loaded with other stuff so it wasn't a total surprise, but I'm curious if others are having this problem? Is it a new problem?

Also, are there things we could be doing to reduce the memory load during the final link?

I would think that the idea of making a single large lib and linking with that (older posting from a few weeks ago) would do the trick. Note that all of our small libs are unstripped static libs. The single one would not be smaller, but would relieve the loading and searching a bit. And making the final link against a single libinkscape.so shared lib would be much smaller.

Bob