Update readme to explain mystery build error is usually a memory one. #2367
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The root cause of the failures I've been seeing running the Jekyll build in a container is the process running out of memory and being silently killed. I spent a while playing with the compose file to allocate more memory, but this doesn't help if the podman machine hasn't been created at a non-default size. I can't find a mechanism to give a more informative error (podman just silently kills the process, presumably in response to an allocation request outside the limit). I also can't find a way to detect the "minimum memory request is bigger than the container runtime is giving us" situation early and fail fast.
So all I can do is document. :(