On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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
It was "make". I forget the exact figures, but I saw approx the same mem usage as Gerald. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
