I remember when it became impossible to build Firefox on our lab machines with 1GB of RAM and 2GB of swap. Even before that it took literally all day to build.
I got another taste of that lately when I had to build Wireshark from source on a Raspberry Pi model B thanks to broken packages in the repo. At least it was the version with 512MB of memory and overclocked. For the most part Wireshark isn't that bad to build, certainly better than Firefox, but there are a couple of dissectors that have unreasonably large source files.
I got another taste of that lately when I had to build Wireshark from source on a Raspberry Pi model B thanks to broken packages in the repo. At least it was the version with 512MB of memory and overclocked. For the most part Wireshark isn't that bad to build, certainly better than Firefox, but there are a couple of dissectors that have unreasonably large source files.