> 
> One other oddity we've noticed is that the "make" process grows
> really huge when compiling the C library; we've seen it grow to
> something like 18MB (!) on the VAX, whilc on our i386 systems it
> "only" grows to 9MB or thereabout.  This is probably also an
> architecture-independent problem, but I would guess it impacts the
> typical NetBSD/VAX installation more than the typical modern
> i386-type PC...
> 
Actually; what's wrong is that ps (and lots of other tools) show twice
of memory usage than it actually is. This problem is known and
a fix will come up later, but not to 1.3 release.

-- Ragge