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- From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!kerberos.demon.co.uk!alovell
- Subject: Re: Problems, and questions. HELP! :)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:43:38 +0000
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- In article <1hpngqINNlev@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
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- >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
- >
- GCC loves RAM ,with only 2 meg it's too busy swapping to compile much
- try putting at least another 2 meg in ,that should speed things up
- I think the current record for compiling the kernel in 2 meg of ram
- is about 16 hours , my 386sx25 with 10 mb does it in 50 mins and the
- people with 486dx33's and 8 meg do it in about 12/15 mins
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- anthony
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