Alan Modra writes: > 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.
This might be make or the disastrously slow split-for-gcj shell script. However, I was a little reluctant to check in my patch at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath-patches/2005-08/msg00145.html that replaces a shell script with an Awk program, because at lest shell scripts are portable everywhere. Even on a fast machine (Athlon64 3200+) this patch shaves a minute from the build time. Andrew.
