Make build runs out of memory

[mikemets (Mike Metcalfe)]

I built a plone 6 (volto 17.13.0) site using the Create a Project docs. The backend builds fine but when I make build in the frontend end the 4GB AWS Lightsail instance runs out of memory when it gets to Compiling server default build.... I ran make clean and then make build again but got the same result.

I also tried using the node option --max-old-space-size=3500 but then the it simply fails when it get to that limit.

Any ideas?

[nileshgulia1 (Nilesh)]

We set it to 8Gigs eea-website-frontend/Dockerfile at db7f26bac9f6b1e446345834c1b52a067630d3bc · eea/eea-website-frontend · GitHub

[mikemets (Mike Metcalfe)]

Hi @nileshgulia1. Is that on a machine with 4GB RAM?

[nileshgulia1 (Nilesh)]

I had this on our orchestration with 8GB of RAM. Also works on my laptop locally which is having 16gigs.

[pigeonflight (David Bain (Will Theme Plone Sites))]

@mikemets this is a known issue. You can get around it by using a swapfile:

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

The impression I have is that you end up needing more RAM solely to support your builds. One trick would be to create a swap on your VM for this purpose. Maybe try this swap trick -> How to setup Docassemble with less than 4GBs of RAM That said, building your docker images ahead of time is another approach that will give your server a ready docker image that will likely need less RAM. Also if you have a semi-useful test of your builds in CI/CD, then failed builds will never propagate to your …

[mikemets (Mike Metcalfe)]

Thanks @pigeonflight, I missed that one

[pigeonflight (David Bain (Will Theme Plone Sites))]

No prob. I hope it works!

[mikemets (Mike Metcalfe)]

It does, thanks.

[fredvd (Fred van Dijk)]

If you build container images, also check the max memory available to the docker engine on the system. I had this set to 2Gb on a server and then the dockerfile building can also run out of memory. Esp. On the yarn build.