Hi folks,

beeing relatively new to NetBSD, I thought a good thing to start with
might be building a new kernel. So I set up the (1.4) sources and did
a 'nice -20 make' on the console. 

Compiling a linux-kernel on the same physical machine (Cyrix-486DLC40
with poor 8 megs of RAM) usually took less than 2 hours so I'm really
surprised to see that the new built hasn't finished yet - after one
whole week of constantly flashing the hd led!

When I telnet to that box an do a 'top' I get something like this:

load averages:  1.96,  1.70,  1.52    12:08:34
18 processes:  1 running, 17 sleeping

Memory: 1136K Act 744K Inact 104K Wired 584K Free 9320K Swap 12M Swap free 

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
12140 root      -5  -20  4252K  348K sleep   5:28  1.81%  1.81% cc1
12184 kimmina   31    0   220K  536K run     0:00  4.79%  1.42% top
12181 kimmina   18    0   496K  176K sleep   0:02  0.19%  0.15% tcsh
  119 root       2    0    96K  116K sleep   5:49  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
  160 root      18    0    16K   76K sleep   5:33  0.00%  0.00% update
  162 root      10    0   268K    4K sleep   4:07  0.00%  0.00% <cron>
10865 root      10  -20  4696K    4K sleep   0:31  0.00%  0.00% <make>
  178 root      18    0   508K    4K sleep   0:03  0.00%  0.00% <tcsh>
12137 root      10  -20   348K    4K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <sh>
    1 root      10    0   252K    4K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <init>
12138 root      10  -20   128K    4K sleep   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <cc>

Is this normal behavior? Do I have to wake up cc1 from time to time? 
Is it dreaming of more memory? Any hints?

thanks in advance
boris

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