>
>   And by setting vm.anonmax=95, the `make netbsd' time is:
>   16487.698u 991.133s 4:59:23.60 97.3%    0+0k 154+9285io 723pf+78w
>
> I was astonished with how close the results were, and obviously a bit
> disappointed to not see any gains.  Maybe there are none to be had
> with my whopping 12MB of available memory? :-)

i don't think that cc use more than 8-9MB RAM while compiling kernel