The original 1536MB/job figure was calibrated around two memory hogs that
the build/de-nix work has since removed: the 293MB-peak serial capnp
compile (now compiled once via libxce_dep) and the 17 scheduler test
executables each statically linking all of scheduler_srcs (now one shared
sched_srcs_lib archive; link peaks ~125-150MB with -g1). Measured per-job
compile RSS ceiling post-dedup is ~125-150MB; 512MB keeps ~3x headroom
while letting an 8GB box run ~8 concurrent compiles instead of 2-3
(t1: mem_jobs goes from ~2-3 to ~9, so the -l ceiling becomes CPU-bound
rather than memory-bound).
SKILL.md's hand-computed formula is updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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