On 12/5/05, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can't guess what else it can be, apart from the xmame compile horribly > memory leaking, but why should it?
Compiles don't 'leak' memory, because they run as separate programs and the system reclaims the memory after each program exits. However, don't underestimate the amount of memory that compiling can take. Some of those xmame modules required >200MB of memory to build on my system with 2G of RAM, and that was with -Os and MAKEOPTS=-j1. Heaven help you if you use -O3/-j3 (In fact, for a system with only 512M of RAM, -j1 *will* be faster than -j2 when building xmame). -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
