Installing libgcj consumes huge amounts of memory

Sun Dec 4 12:03:00 GMT 2005

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.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre