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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

> What I have problem understanding is the last sentence of this
> paragraph in the light of your claim that it will results in
> swapping especially when we consider developers' machines with
> 512MB/1GB RAM, i.e. machines where memory is not "tight".

Sigh, Linux works the same way.  Processes can exceed their HARD
ulimit if there happens to be memory available, making RLIMIT_RSS
basically useless.

Grrr.
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