On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:09:48AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Linking with -g uses again 203 MB resources which means my 256MB box goes > | into swap again (read "unusable"). > > > | We had been down to 182 MB. > > > | What has changed? > > No real idea. > > Hmm... have you tried to use a newer linker? (binutils)
No, that's still 2.12.90.0.15 with stock g++ 3.2 > I think I saw that some changes there should at least improve linking > speed. In this particular case swapping is the problem. And I am a bit surprised since none of the recent changes should have had the potential of increasing the amount of symbols a lot. > And I must admit that I currently always run with "--disable-debug", > not because of memory usage, but of linking time. I usually do as well, but from time to time a full backtrace is helpful... > Seems that on your box you would benefit from partial linking? Maybe. I plead ignorance here... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
