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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: large compress, not enough memory...
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.151932.1208@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:19:32 GMT
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- In article <tlhilde.713763363@roby.ecn.purdue.edu>, tlhilde@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Troy Hildebrand) writes:
- | Ok, I have a 386SX(16) with 2Meg of ram... about 1.2 Meg free after bootup.
- |
- | I think i just did something rather foolish, and am wondering how long
- | it will take to finish. I have a 1.4 Meg tarfile, which I decided to
- | compress. Thing is, the tar file is larger than my memory, and it is
- | taking a long time to finish.
-
- Memory should not be a problem, although your /is/ rather small.
- Compress takes about 650k to run, max, at least on my other systems. You
- probably have that much memory free, or at least are not paging your
- brains out. The real problem is that (a) you don't have much memory for
- disk buffers, either, and (b) the SX16 is a total pig.
-
- I'm running one with 12MB and X is really slow (I have the FPU) while
- recompiling the kernel takes about 2 hours. Next week I'm getting a
- 386DX40 w/ cache, and that should help considerably. Maybe the best $179
- I ever spent, actually.
-
- The funny thing is I built the box for Linux out of spare parts after
- I upgraded the last system. Now I'll have a spare motherboard and case
- again, and a disk controller, and a cheap VGA... I really don't /need/
- a 4th system, so this time I may sell it off after I build it. Probably
- with Linux installed...
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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