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- From: a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (USS Account Creation account)
- Subject: Re: HELP! GCC CHOKING ON COMPILES!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.042143.7478@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
- Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- References: <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu> <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:21:43 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk> spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- How large is your swap partition? A small swap partition may limit your
- main memory usage!
-
- Just my 2 cents.
-
- Stephen Wong.
- (a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk)
-