Erlang dependency doesn't compile with mix

Ok - grasping at straws here:

On Digital Ocean/Ubuntu there seems to be an emerging pattern that compiling certain applications with rebar3 through mix can run into trouble in a memory constrained environment (512 MB RAM).

Now, I haven’t seen anything comparable for OS X - but it may be worth firing up Activity Monitor and watching the “Memory” tab to see what is happening to the physical memory consumption during compilation:

  • Is physical memory being completely consumed?
  • Is a swap file being created to cover the short fall?