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- From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: HELP! GCC CHOKING ON COMPILES!
- Message-ID: <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:57:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
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- In article <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu> ae007@yfn.ysu.edu (Daniel Newcombe) writes:
- |
- |I was trying to compile the DKB Ray Tracing program that I
- |got from wuarchive.wustl.edu /graphics/graphics/ray/dbktrace.
- |I copied the unix.mak and unix.conf to Makefile and config.h
- |and typed make. Much to my surprise, I didn't get errors
- |saying that all the C stuff was incompatiable. Instead I
- |went to watch Star Trek and came back an hour later...and it
- |was still trying to compile. It had only done 4 files!!!
- |I wanted to see how long it had been running so I suspened
- |the job and typed ps. The system stopped. I had this problem
- |earlier with another program I was compiling. Has anyone
- |else had problems like this. It really sucks that I can't
- |develop anything new on the system :(
-
- Yes. I've had problems like this. I think it just runs out of memory,
- how much have you got. When I try to compile xview apps the system is
- unusable because of continuous disk access so the cpu spends all its
- time servicing interrupts (I think). If you then run out of memory as
- well and it starts swapping you're in big trouble.
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- My 8Mb 33Mhz 486, with 200Mb maxtor IDE drive just isn't up to compiling
- xview apps, which have huge include files. Instead I use Julian's
- machine which doesn't suffer from these problems, partly because it has
- more memory but mainly I think because disk access doesn't kill
- performance.
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