On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Daney wrote: >> On i386-freebsd the number I identified earlier this year was 700MB, >> 512MB definitely _not_ being sufficient. I'd be very interested in >> your measurements, perhaps we can reduce the limit somewhat! > I regularly bootstrap c,c++,java on a mips-linux-gnu system with 256MB > of RAM (and 2000MB swap).
Here we go! This means your system actually features 2256MB of memory, not just 256MB. ;-) Sorry for not making it more clear that I was really referring to overall memory, not just main memory. According to my tests our peak in virtual memory use is a bit below 700MB while building libgcj. Gerald
