Rust analyzer and compilation are very slow. My system is heating up, running out of ram and disk space. I have 8 GB ram.

I use helix editor.

edit: thank you for all your suggestions. I am breaking up the project into smaller crates to see if that makes a difference.

I got the biggest improvements from zram and sccache. With zram my memory usage stays at 90% instead of fully running out when rust-analyzer starts.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    If you have the ability to recompile your system ( Gentoo, changing the optimization from -O2 to -Os, optimizing for size ), that may significantly free your system’s resources for stuff.

    Also, if you CAN’T add RAM, can you speed your storage?

    Going from spinning-platter to SATA-SSD, or from SATA-SSD to NVMe, or from normal-NVMe to FAST-NVMe, would massively help your system’s speed.

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