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Building AOSP 7.x Nougat with only 8 GiB RAM

This is a problem that I ran across recently. Building the whole AOSP code base is a big task, and normally you would choose a machine with plenty of RAM. But, sometimes you need to build on a lesser machine. It happened to me when I was on the road and I wanted to run a build on my laptop, which has 8 GiB RAM, and a dual core hyper-threaded Intel i7 CPU. I have used this set up with Marshmallow and earlier versions without problem – it just takes a while, that’s all.

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