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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!a590700 From: a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (USS Account Creation account) Subject: Re: HELP! GCC CHOKING ON COMPILES! Message-ID: <1992Nov7.042143.7478@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong References: <1992Nov4.043335.18409@news.ysu.edu> <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:21:43 GMT Lines: 36 In article <14858.9211051457@thor.cf.ac.uk> spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes: >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. > How large is your swap partition? A small swap partition may limit your main memory usage! Just my 2 cents. Stephen Wong. (a590700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk)