ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:

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>How about those Linuxers with 16-32 MB of RAM?  I haven't heard their
>experiences.  I wonder if they ever managed to run out of memory, except
>when compiling something big like Interviews.  :-)

    Well, actually I have 16 MB of RAM, and just for kicks since I have
tons of disk space (envy me :)) I even put on an 8 MB swap partition.  As
far as I know, I've never come /anywhere/ near even getting into the swap,
with X running several (8-10) clients and doing kernel compiles at the
same time.

    I understand that GCC gets *really* big really fast when you have large
pre-initialized arrays, though.  I haven't tried compiling anything that
does that as of yet.

--
    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
                                                  -- Phil Karn