Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:23:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The Hurd will eventually crash on large compiles. How large the > compile has to be to make this happen depends on factors such as the > amount of memory and swap space you have. I have been able to compile > Perl without problems on my Hurd (which is based on a snapshot from > july or so with some bug fixes) in 32 MB RAM and 128 MB swap. Hmm, I probably need more. (24+100) Did your build include -g and -DDEBUGGING ? How does one discover system statistics such as how much memory is in use? No, I generally do not build perl with debugging enabled. Probably stresses the system even more than without. Anyway, you can use `vmstat' to monitor memory usage. If you give it a numeric argument N it will spit out the info every N seconds. Watch the amount of wired down memory. It will gradually increase and when it gets close to the amount of real RAM you've got, a crash is about to happen. Mark
