Subject: Re: Endless compilation of qt3-libs (NetBSD 2.0)
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/02/2005 14:31:56
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:37:12PM +0100, Jean-Pierre HOFER wrote:
> On a DECstation 5000/200 (NetBSD 2.0, 64 MB memory), qt3-libs is not yet
> built after 3 days ...
> 
> c++ -c -0 unixmake2.o ... generators/unix/unixmake2.cpp  seems to be
> an endless process.
> 
> Is this an usual behaviour on such a slow CPU or is there a bug ?

with only 64MB of RAM compiling C++, I would suspect severe slowness due
to paging.  you could verify this with the output of "vmstat -5".

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