Unbelievably high memory usage

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I often get "out of memory" error when compiling in QuartusII 9.1 SP2. It reports the memory usage is 837MB ... :-s 

Why does Quartus consume so much of memory? is it normal?

[Altera_Forum]

Its quite normal, especially for larger devices.  

The minimum requirement for larger arria 2s is 3GB!  There are often many nets to maintain and route.

[Altera_Forum]

http://www.altera.com/support/software/quartus2/memory/qts-memory.html 

 What Quartus has to say about it. And the pdf linked (http://www.altera.com/literature/rn/rn_qts_dev_support.pdf) with the release notes has what they recommend memory for different target devices.

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks guys,  

I'm a bit out-dated on this issue. But still, can't appreciate the amount of consumed memory.