Hi, I'm just trying to start using Pulumi but are running into some issues. Using GCP and

<http://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/sdk/v3@v3.25.0/go/gcp/compute|github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/sdk/v3@v3.25.0/go/gcp/compute>

creating a

NewInstance

and running

pulumi up

has my machine freeze up as the compilation step (snippet) hijacks all cores at 100% until finally failing with

Diagnostics:
  pulumi:pulumi:Stack (project-stage):
    go build <http://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/sdk/v3/go/gcp/compute|github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/sdk/v3/go/gcp/compute>: /usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/compile: signal: killed

    error: an unhandled error occurred: program exited with non-zero exit code: 1

I'm looking for any assistance in debugging this. I've successfully added two other resources and it's as I'm adding the compute instance to my stack that this happens. I'm not sure what is eventually killing off the compilation but I would assume it's some internal timeout in Pulumi. Happy to provide any additional info.

Are you by any chance running pulumi inside of a VM? Due to a lack of generics in go, there are a huge number of types that get linked in and this is known to take up quite a bit of memory.

I am not running inside a VM, yet. This is on my laptop which has 16gb of total memory. Do you think that is not enough?

Can you try setting GOGC? Perhaps something like

GOGC=50

or

GOGC=25

https://dave.cheney.net/tag/gogc

Setting a lower

GOGC

value seems to help as the compilation now succeeds so I can get around my particular issue this way for now, thanks.