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C++ Compilation Instructions in Quickstart Guide will Crash Most Machines
The default instructions indicate to build gRPC using the command make -j, which is nearly guaranteed to crash most machines given a project of this size. Building easily ate through my 16 GB of RAM at about 54% complete. After my terminal session crashed twice while building, I kept an eye on my system resources the next time around, and discovered this to be the issue. Limiting the number of concurrent jobs to 8 with make -j 8 doesn't substantially increase build times and safely keeps RAM usage to something reasonable. The line of the guide in question is here:
https://github.com/grpc/grpc.io/blob/main/content/en/docs/languages/cpp/quickstart.md?plain=1#L117
