Dealing with heap exhaustion while building Volto 17 on limited-RAM host

[tkimnguyen]

@klm

I'm curious whether others with systems that have limited memory are also encountering this behavior?

yes, ran into it myself, and I may at some point consider running Docker images ... but for now it's too much voodoo

How much RAM is required to build a Volto front end?

Get off my lawn, punk! This is the first verification of system requirements to build, not run, Plone. It should go in the docs. Both install methods refer to the hardware requirements to run, not build, Plone. I'd accept a PR with text that clarified the difference. Of course, if one person builds a container locally, then pushes that to a repo for others to consume, then the build step is avoided and lacks the extra RAM requirement for consumers.