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Re: Proposed solution for nsswitch.c compilation
- To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Proposed solution for nsswitch.c compilation
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 02 Feb 1999 09:20:22 -0800
- Cc: geoffk@ozemail.com.au (Geoff Keating), aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <m107gvz-000392C@ocean.lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> Before I forgot, to compile nsswitch.c on alpha, you needs LOTS of
> RAM and swap space. egcs 1.1.1 will use all of them. Here is free
> output when I compiled it on alpha:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62792 61208 1584 10560 1352 10008
> -/+ buffers/cache: 49848 12944
> Swap: 119704 37632 82072
>
> I have seen 100MB swap space being used.
This is not unusual. I have similar numbers for Intel.
I won't add this define in the Makefiles but I'll mention in the
announcement also that large amounts of virtual memory are needed for
highest optimizations.
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