cc1 hog

[Joe Buck]

[ 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.