On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

[...]
> 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...

Note that the memory numbers on the VAX are off by a factor of two, so if
it says 18M, it's really 9M.
It's been this way as long as NetBSD has existed on the VAX, but hopefully
it will soon be corrected.

	Johnny

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