http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29442
Gašper Ažman <gasper.azman at gmail dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gasper.azman at gmail dot | |com --- Comment #11 from Gašper Ažman <gasper.azman at gmail dot com> 2012-05-02 16:28:52 UTC --- I can confirm this is still a problem on 2.5.3. Compiling on a system with 256MB memory (hired, remote, virtualized) is not possible without an extra 1GB of memory and almost nothing else running (the memory usage peaked at full RAM and 522MB swap used, with gcc using everything but 60MB).