Tom Tromey writes: > >>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gerald> Is anyone seeing this? With current 4.1 sources, on a machine > Gerald> with "only" 1GB of main memory + 1GB swap, the following part > Gerald> of `make install` > [...] > Gerald> spawns a recursive make (GNU make 3.80) that consumes some > Gerald> 450MB of memory and triggers a system load of 12+, basically > Gerald> rendering the machine dead for about a minute. > > Gerald> Any ideas how I could nail this down? Anyone else seeing this? > > First, yeah, this is known. And, kudos to HJ for trying to fix this > in 'make'. > > I've been considering working around this problem by just redoing the > whole .java->.class step whenever any .java file changes. That would > probably be slower for libgcj developers but at least wouldn't hugely > hurt folks working elsewhere. Also, most class library development > happens in Classpath these days anyway. > > Any comments on this?
It wouldn't delight me. A "class depends on packages" model would, and would mostly solve the problem. Andrew.
