Re: egcs-1.0.3a weirdness with lynx-2.8 on v2.1.107

D.A. Harris (rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:55:20 -0700

On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 09:14:23PM -0400, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> That could explain it, but I have built and compiled packages under libc5
> without any problems in the past. I cannot accept that memory requirements
> have increased to that extent in glibc2 such that a machine with 32MB of
> RAM and a swap file of 26MB cannot do things that it did previously. :o(
> If that is the issue here, that is *unacceptable*. I do not want to throw
> away lots of money just to upgrade the machine so it can do things
> successfully. I'm not made of money.
>
> Cross posted to both Kernel/glibc mailing lists for comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex

In Unix, not just Linux, I'm always operated on the notion that you needed
more swap than memory (gizzled Unix sys. admin. experience), and that you
could have problems otherwise. Maybe you were just lucky under libc5. There
are numerous utilies that recommend lots of swap, if I remember right,
ImageMagic is one, I think they recommend 3 times RAM in swap. If I'm wrong
on that one then I do know that a lot CAD/CAE apps requires substanial
amounts of swap.

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