MemoryError with larger dependency files

[jadolfbr]

Details

• Project URL: https://github.com/SchiefLab/Jade
• Build URL (if applicable): https://readthedocs.org/projects/bio-jade/builds/6749799/
• Read the Docs username (if applicable): jadolfbr

Expected Result

Clean build of requirements.txt

Actual Result

Hit a MemoryError while downloading SciPy in the virtualenv. Had to remove from requirements.txt temporarily
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29466663/memory-error-while-using-pip-install-matplotlib

[stsewd]

The memory limit is 1Gb

https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/builds.html#build-process

(You can request more memory as mention on the docs)

Probably we could add an option for the pip options (--no-cache-dir).

[humitos]

This seems to be a problem specific to pip and not RTD.

In any case, if you don't needs matplotlib (or any other dependency) to build your docs you shouldn't make it required to build the docs by having a separate requirements.txt file.

Probably we could add an option for the pip options (--no-cache-dir).

The cache is useful for all the projects to not re-download the same packages all the time. So, we shouldn't add the --no-cache-dir option.

I'm closing this issue. Please, feel free to reopen if you consider.