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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS GCC chokes on TIFF libraries
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:36:02 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:
-
- >Now that is weird, cause I have 8 megs of ram, and 16 swap (well, 32 now, but
- >that is after the fact) and I got the tiff libraries compiled just fine, it
- >did trash hard on the system, but worked flawlessly. DON'T try to run X though
- >while compiling :)
-
- >Mike
-
- The last time I compiled xv, the tiff libraries took up almost 22 megs of
- virtual memory to complete the compilation. Seems they have a lot of arrays
- with initialized data in them. This causes gcc to use gobbs of memory.
-
- I have 8M of ram and 16M of swap also, and free showed me that it was barely
- enough for everything running. I really think the 16M limit on swap should
- be changed to something a lot larger.
-
- The linux system has potential to work as a cpu and disk server for places,
- but with the limits on swap and memory that we impose now, it makes it hard
- to use. With a local bus 486 system I have heard of putting up to 128M on
- the motherboard. If you match swap against memory like I usually do, that
- means you have to have 128M of swap.
-
- Just some things to think about.
-
- James
-