[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Stump) wrote on 01.04.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 08:48 AM, Stefan Strasser wrote: > > if gcc uses more memory than physically available it spends a _very_ > > long time swapping > > Swapping, what's that? Here's $20, go buy a gigabyte. $20? That does not seem to correspond to current prices: * PC100 SDRAM 512MB ab 80.50 EUR * PC133 SDRAM 512MB ab 38.89 EUR * PC266 DDRRAM 1GB ab 86.90 EUR * PC266 DDRRAM 512MB ab 38.00 EUR * PC333 DDRRAM 1GB ab 93.00 EUR * PC333 DDRRAM 512MB ab 34.99 EUR * PC400 DDRAM 512MB ab 32.58 EUR * PC400 DDRRAM 1GB ab 84.00 EUR * PC433 DDRAM 512MB ab 85.00 EUR * PC433 DDRRAM 1GB ab 184.00 EUR * PC466 DDRAM 512MB ab 56.92 EUR * PC466 DDRRAM 1GB ab 116.88 EUR * PC667 DDR2RAM 512MB ab 118.44 EUR * PC800 RDRAM 1GB ab 570.00 EUR * PC800 RDRAM 512MB ab 147.49 EUR But where do I stick that gigabyte? All my memory slots are in use with the current gigabyte. (And yes, this machine *does* swap: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1030916 978872 52044 0 301948 429344 -/+ buffers/cache: 247580 783336 Swap: 5123072 553404 4569668 ) That's while *not* bootstrapping. Bootstrap is *slow*. processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1145.142 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 2287.20 Not an old 486 here. MfG Kai