How to limit the amount of memory the OCaml compiler is allowed to use?

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Is it possible to limit the RAM the OCaml compiler is allowed to use (at the expense of speed)?

We’re hitting the 4GB limit on CircleCI with our OCaml project now, and I can’t find the equivalents of https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/oom/#setting-memory-limits-for-the-jvm for OCaml

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@stedolan was kind enough to provide the answer to this:

the main tool for configuring space use is the space overhead parameter (OCAMLRUNPARAM’s o).
Try export OCAMLRUNPARAM="o=20" before running your program

Unlike java, you don’t specify a maximum heap size but instead a relative overhead: o=80 (the default) means that the heap is allowed to grow to the amount of live data in your program + 80%

Interestingly, @Drup points out that OCAMLRUNPARAM` affects any OCaml program, and since the compiler itself is an OCaml program, it’s affected!

@dww has also opened up a PR for the CircleCI docs for anyone else who runs across this Update oom with instructions for OCaml/Reason by dwwoelfel · Pull Request #1499 · circleci/circleci-docs · GitHub.
EDIT: PR has been merged, the new OCaml/Reason note for CircleCI is live Welcome to CircleCI Documentation - CircleCI

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Note that OCAMLRUNPARAM has a few other interesting parameters which are documented here in the manual.

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