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Workarounds for building Android 12 on 8GB RAM
Workarounds for building S on 8GB RAM environment:
1. At the start of the build:
[ 99% 138/139] /mnt/ssd/lineage/out/soong/.bootstrap/bin/soong_build /mnt/ssd/lineage/out/soong/build.ninja
This used to take around 30mins, after enabling zram now it takes around 30secs (thanks to @kdrag0n for the zram idea) which is on par with what happens in 16GB RAM building environments
sudo apt install zram-config for installing zram-config package
sudo nano /etc/fstab and add a # in front of the swap disk if you have one and then reboot
After booting cat /proc/swaps to check if zram is enabled or not
2. To avoid issues while building metalava (outOfMemoryException: java heap space)
Pick this commit --> https://github.com/verNANDo57/android_build_soong/commit/ffc8846a01fcfc20d6cf8ca701ef73d99f15acad
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chunix64 commented Nov 27, 2025

Solved: Free ssh server for android building with 16gb ram + swap
https://github.com/chunix64/github-action-ssh

Is the disksize enough for that?

Enough for boot, recovery, vendor_boot building but not for system.img

Try "distributed build system", idk if it works

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