If you want to see older hardware really suck, try compiling glibc with -j5 on a system with limited RAM. (-j5 means it tries to compile 5 jobs at once and was put there to take advantage of distcc, which shares compiling load over a network).
Somewhere along the line it makes the locale files, which seems to be very memory hungry. As glibc won't actually use distcc, you suddenly end with 5 processes running very memory hungry compilations and thrashing the swap incessantly. It took 3 or 4 days on one machine. I had to keep making new swap files and adding them to swap (nice to be able to do it on the fly) - that was when there was even enough processor power and memory to let me log in! </war stories> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:11:32 +1300 mpj17 wrote: > >===== Original Message From [email protected] ===== > > let it do its thing in its own time. > > Exactly. Check your mail while waiting for the compile to > finish (I have to wait for TeX often enough :) > > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://ldots.org/ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
