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Our current testing utilities are relatively small and compile with modest amounts of RAM. Hobbit's netcat, WR Stevens' sock, etc.

We have security auditing rules that require us to compile the programs we run from source. We prefer small programs as they are easier to audit.

Does anyone know how much RAM is required to compile Chromium?

Can it be done on a laptop?

[dfc]

Do you have to compile everything from source, e.g. gcc, glibc, etc? There is no need to get into the whole "reflections on trusting trust" spiel, but I imagine at some point you must rely on your distro? Just use the chromium package from your distro. If not why not build on a desktop/server and copy package to laptop?

[mnkypete]

I would not recommend that. I compiled Chromium a few month ago with my i7 desktop with 8gig ram and it took at least an hour to finish, if not longer. I don't think RAM is that much of an issue, but I wouldn't go lower than at least 4gig of RAM.