[lsst-dm-stack-users] stack build can be *very* memory hungry -- default to fewer NCORES?

[Paul Price]

On Jun 25, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Dustin Lang wrote:
> On my Mac OSX 10.8 laptop with 4 cores and 8 GB of memory, the machine 
> becomes nearly unusable during the afw build.

I've noticed on my Mac that afw builds faster and easier if you add "debug=0" to SCONSFLAGS.  Of course, that means you don't get the debugging information, but if you're not planning to run gdb (or lldb) then it's the way to go.

P.