[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

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