On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 01), Leif Neland said:
> > So far it has been taking 2 hours to compile sql_yacc.cc from
> > mysql3.22.
> >
> > I had to find an old disk for swap, and it's swapping all the time.
> >
> > top shows 156M size and 46M res., run time 20min's for cc1plus. That
> > probably means it's been waiting for swapping in 1h40m...
> >
> > The box is a 333MHz PII, with 64M ram. Do I just need more ram to be
> > able to compile in reasonable time, or is something broken?
>
> You probably need more RAM. sql_yacc.cc is one of those "worst-case"
> programs as far as gcc is concerned; I don't think gcc can parse large
> case statements like this efficiently. Adding "--with-low-memory" to
> your port Makefile, in the CONFIGURE_ARGS line, will help.
>
I got 64M more RAM(1), so the system now has 128MB. Mysql now compiles in
10 minutes or so.
Leif
(1) My wife got the kids a new game for christmas. It was too demanding
for their 486's, so I got 2 K6-3-400MHz/64MB motherboards for them.
To preserve my self-esteem, I had to upgrade my own PII-333/64Mb somehow
to be more powerfull than theirs...
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