People, I'm having a pretty tough time here. I have a design using a Xilinx Vertex-5 part with over 1100 pins. Other connectors have over 200 pins as well, with 431 lines in the netlist file, and 14 to 16 layers.
My system is running Fedora-7, and the latest gEDA release (I think). Specifically, I'm running pcb-20070208 and I have 3.9 Gigabytes of memory installed in an AMD-64 machine with 29.8 Gigabytes of swap. What I find is that frequently when I start a job (most recently miter), the job starts OK, then the monitor shows that memory consumption starts to grow until I see of the order of 99.0-99.5% memory commitment. Then (of course) swap starts. Some jobs will continue to completion in a few minutes, however in the case of miter, swap continues to grow to 35 to 40% by which time the system is doing mostly nothing but swap. Miter ran in this condition for over 60 hours. I need to emphasize that I have my machine loaded to maximum memory capacity. Can anyone suggest a rationale short of a different machine that I might be able to use to improve machine performance? Any help would be appreciated. Harold Skank _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user