Re: Easy Guide / new tarball
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Tobey <spam@john-edwin-tobey.org>
> 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
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