GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> 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.

Perhaps we can use --param ggc-min-expand=X --param ggc-min-heapsize=Y 
options? I've tried here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-05/msg00967.html

and got some interesting results which might be more similar to the 
machines with low memory.

Cheers,
Karel
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