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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!netsys!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!news From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: HELP! GCC CHOKING ON COMPILES! Message-ID: <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: 5 Nov 92 14:57:38 GMT References: <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway In article <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu> ae007@yfn.ysu.edu (Daniel Newcombe) writes: | |I was trying to compile the DKB Ray Tracing program that I |got from wuarchive.wustl.edu /graphics/graphics/ray/dbktrace. |I copied the unix.mak and unix.conf to Makefile and config.h |and typed make. Much to my surprise, I didn't get errors |saying that all the C stuff was incompatiable. Instead I |went to watch Star Trek and came back an hour later...and it |was still trying to compile. It had only done 4 files!!! |I wanted to see how long it had been running so I suspened |the job and typed ps. The system stopped. I had this problem |earlier with another program I was compiling. Has anyone |else had problems like this. It really sucks that I can't |develop anything new on the system :( Yes. I've had problems like this. I think it just runs out of memory, how much have you got. When I try to compile xview apps the system is unusable because of continuous disk access so the cpu spends all its time servicing interrupts (I think). If you then run out of memory as well and it starts swapping you're in big trouble. My 8Mb 33Mhz 486, with 200Mb maxtor IDE drive just isn't up to compiling xview apps, which have huge include files. Instead I use Julian's machine which doesn't suffer from these problems, partly because it has more memory but mainly I think because disk access doesn't kill performance. -- Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK. spedpr@uk.ac.cf.thor Internet: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk UUCP: spedpr@cf-thor.UUCP or ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf!thor!spedpr +++