Running make doc works fine during the night on my computer because I am not using it. But running make doc is really annoying during the day when let's say I want to use firefox at the same time: the computer gets swapping and becomes unusable.
Developers are well aware of the problem with memory usage while building Sage's documentation.
To mitigate this problem, make sure to disable using multiple cores while building the docs:
$ export MAKE='make -j1'
$ make doc
There was work on decreasing the memory usage of building the documentation during Sage Days 77 in Spring 2016 and you can hopefully find some of the conclusions in the report available from the days77 page.
It's possible that more work is needed.
@slelievre well now I feel better about not knowing any other solution!
Asked: 2016-11-29 14:46:38 +0100
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I agree with this, though I don't know a solution other than forcing it to use one thread.