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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems, and questions. HELP! :)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 09:17:50 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
-
- >Problem #2:
- >gcc/cc does not like my system at all, it absolutely crawls. I tried
- >compiling ps and it took 30-45 minutes to compile. I dunno if this is
- >because of my swap drive, cpu speed, memory, or what. I'm afraid to try
- >to re-compile the kernel :)
-
- >My setup consists of:
- >386 33mhz
- >2 meg ram
- >30 meg linux partition *50% free*
- >2 meg swap drive *which linux says is 4?*
- >the usual floppy drives, keyboard, ect
-
-
- >Any help would be _GREATLY_ apprechiated, thanks again!
-
- The problem you are having with gcc is the 2M of ram. The kernel grabs about
- a meg anymore depending on its configuration and your motherboard.
- (Some motherboards won't give back the shadow bios, and therefore
- you lose 384k of good ram).
-
- You might try adding more swap also, because gcc likes around 2M of ram,
- so you're leaving it with around 500k to play with. (The buffer cache takes
- up about 500k also). I have a feeling you wouldn'tbe able to recompile the
- kernel, because gcc would run out of memory during optimization.
-
- All in all, the biggest difference you will see is by adding more memory.
- Adding swap will help, but onboard memory will increase your speed greatly.
-
- James
-