Re: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0

["Bill McEnaney" <bill at rkirkpat dot net>]

Lee, 

Now I'm more jealous than ever.  Say much more, and I'll turn green with
envy. While Tamino builds gcc, he uses the "top" command to monitor: CPU
use, RAM use, virtual-storage use, and other factors.  During a gcc
build, the UltraSarc-2e processor is usually 90 to 100 percent busy. 
And poor, ancient Tamino divides his time among about 80 processes, most
of which are sleeping.  There's a lot to be said for having to brains. :)

Bill

> Bill,
>   I did limit the build to C/C++ and the testsuite only.  In case you are
> interested, I did the build on my HP xw8000, which has dual Xeon 3GHz
CPUs,
> 3.4 GB RAM, and 10K rpm hard disks.  However, I did not use the SMP
"make -j
> 2 bootstrap" option and I limited the RAM available to cygwin to 1GB (The
> upper limit for cygwin is 1.5GB).  Nonetheless, during the build both CPUs
> were pretty busy at 60%-80% and RAM usage hovered around 800MB.  Next time
> I'll up the memory limit to the max and also monitor virtual memory
size and
> page faults.  Since both CPUs were pretty busy I doubt that the -j switch
> would change much.
> 
> Lee.
> 
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill McEnaney [mailto:bill@rkirkpat.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:10 PM
> To: Lee Rhodes; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0
> 
> Lee, Building took only two hours 45 minutes?  I'm jealous. :) At
about 2:00
> AM, I told my Sunblade 100 workstation Tamino to build gcc-4.2.0. 
> Instantly, he began to clink, to clank, and to clunk, and stopped
"drumming"
> at about 9:45 PM that night.  Some guys get all the luck. ;)
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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