* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > that is not a surprise to hear: the massive thrashing caused by the > linker phase not being possible to be RAM-resident will be absolutely > hammering the drives beyond reasonable wear-and-tear limits. which is > why i'm recommending people try "-Wl,--no-keep-memory".
Note that ld will sometimes stuff everything into a single RWX segment as a result, which is not desirable. Unfortunately, without significant investment into historic linker technologies (with external sorting and that kind of stuff), I don't think it is viable to build 32-bit software natively in the near future. Maybe next year only a few packages will need exceptions, but the number will grow with each month. Building on 64-bit kernels will delay the inevitable because more address space is available to user space, but that's probably 12 to 18 month extended life-time for native building.
