Subject: Memory usage (compiling)
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Amadeus Stevenson <amadeus.stevenson@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/20/2005 18:47:11
Hello!

I've got the summer off (at last!) from college so I've reinstated my
ultra5 with a fresh install of the latest build snapshot (HEAD).

I'm just compiling a few utilities (wget, screen etc) from pkgsrc with
no other processes (and no X) running and:

Memory: 52M Act, 27M Inact, 456K Wired, 5744K Exec, 58M File, 1584K Free
Swap: 128M Total, 3328K Used, 125M Free

Seems like the compiler is using a lot of memory! I don't know what
"File" means, but the fact that the swap gets used seems like it's run
out of physical memory to me.

What memory amounts would you suggest? Swap?

Thanks

Amadeus (hoping to get firefox working under X soon)