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Re: cc1 hog
- To: robertl at dgii dot com (Robert Lipe)
- Subject: Re: cc1 hog
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 97 14:12:52 PDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
[ ulimit ]
> Of course, deciding "how big is too big, while still allowing 'big enough'"
> is an exercise left for the astute reader. I know that I arbitraily picked
> a number and found that many mysterious c-torture faliures were actually
> becuase the number I picked was too low.
Ah, but if a test successfully completes with a ulimit set one week, and
the next week requires triple the memory, isn't this, if not quite a
regression, something that should be looked at? Until a few months ago
I ran a Linux box with 12M RAM and 16M swap. I would have been really
annoyed if that machine could no longer compile the Linux kernel.