# Compile time OutOfMemoryError

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/compile-time-outofmemoryerror/34683>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/compile-time-outofmemoryerror/34683 "2022-01-17T00:14:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/compile-time-outofmemoryerror/34683/1 "2022-01-17T00:14:25Z")

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I have a sketch that is quite big (about 8 MiB) that will not compile. When I run it, it gives me an `OutOfMemoryError` while compiling. It will not even do `print("hi");` if I put it at the beginning. Does anyone know how I might prevent this from happening? I tried increasing the maximum memory to 4 GiB, but it still doesn’t work and Processing 4 is only using 700 MiB total. I am very confused.