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Yocto Memory Usage

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MichaelBMiner
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Hello All,

I am starting to read about Yocto and I created an Ubuntu VM with 50GB of disk space. I am realizing now I probably should have made it 60GB since Ubuntu itself takes up space. 

 

I am just wondering what does Yocto and bitbake do that requires so much memory? We are building an image for an IMX6 (I am using the quick start poky tutorial). If I recall correctly a dev board does not have 50GB of space for an embedded Linux image. 

 

I understand this is how it has to be, but can anyone point me to some documentation on the memory requirements for Yocto and bitbake?

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Bio_TICFSL
NXP TechSupport
NXP TechSupport

Hello MichaelBMiner,

 

In fact you need at least 200GB on ubunto to start building yocto.

 

Regards

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MichaelBMiner
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Why does it need 200GB of free space? Is there any way to reduce this?

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Bio_TICFSL
NXP TechSupport
NXP TechSupport

Hi,

It has to be with the whole package that yocto need for deploying, you can at least reduce to 150GB no more.

 

Regards

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