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I run Linux and have 8G and compile things. Works fine. Currently ~/.cache is 2G, but that's because I cleared out ~/.cache/go just yesterday after compiling ~1

by arp242 2y ago

I run Linux and have 8G and compile things. Works fine. Currently ~/.cache is 2G, but that's because I cleared out ~/.cache/go just yesterday after compiling ~1000 Go modules for some testing, which bloated it to >50G.

nottorp 2y ago
What kills your ram is not compiling things but the browser and those Electron apps. (Well and Yocto builds, but that's not your average 'compiling things'.)