On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:35:31AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > spawns a recursive make (GNU make 3.80) that consumes some 450MB of memory > and triggers a system load of 12+, basically rendering the machine dead > for about a minute. > > On a different machine with only 512MB + 1GB swap, this time running > FreeBSD 5.3, I cannot install GCC any longer.
I noticed something similar on a Linux machine with 512M + 1G swap when remaking libjava after editing some files. Thrashing for around 15 minutes before finally proceeding. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
