From c3ff62863d9745f690fea65ef12fb205222d01b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: johnthagen Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:02:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify RAM usage during build --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 95d543b8bb3..779acb9fab4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms: You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work. -Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. +Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB of RAM to build, depending on platform. If it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build. There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].