Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 28 Dec 2010, at 12:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

FPC works well enough to compile itself on Solaris (as discussed elsewhere) so 
I've got no reason to think that things are totally broken. However I've not 
got a number of tools that I rely heavily on when running Linux- in particular 
since I've not got GNU Screen if the SSH session goes down I'll have to start 
over, and I've got neither free nor top so don't have an easy way of looking at 
what memory allocation is doing.

Try prstat. http://bhami.com/rosetta.html is handy in such situations.

Thanks, I'd forgotten that site. Tries to tell me that CPU is 0.05 but still takes 10 secs to login- I'm pretty sure the whole system's thrashing... [applies ear to case] yup, it's thrashing.

One thing that this obviously emphasises is that individual CPU speed and overall memory capacity can still be important: even if compilation could be reliably parallelised (gmake -j) I doubt that linkage could.

I'll get on with the other holiday tasks- vacuuming servers etc., I'll be back.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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