On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:01 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:
> i'm going to see if i can get above the 4GB mark by modifying the > Makefile to do 3,000 shared libraries instead of 3,000 static object > files. fail. shared libraries link extremely quickly. reverted to static, trying this: $ python evil_linker_torture.py 3000 400 200 500000 so that's 4x the number of functions per file, and 2x the number of calls *in* each function. just the compile phase requires 1GB per object file (gcc 7.3.0-29), which, on "make -j8" ratched up the loadavg to the point where... well.. *when* it recovered it reported a loadavg of over 35, with 95% usage of the 16GB swap space... running with "make -j4" is going to take a few hours. l.
