On 1/17/2011 12:29 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Not so much :-)
I too have db servers with 96G of ram. 5 of them, so I'm current. I'm just
gobsmacked that a desktop needs 3G to build a compiler and system libs. It's
consuming 2G to do that, I'll bet that 1.75G of that is pure wastage.
Much like authors who proudly declare that they spent 7 years writing some
magnum opus. It's a sure bet they were drunk of 6.5 of them :-)
Not a compiler or system libs.
"whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice"
OpenOffice. Nuff said.
kashani
