> > 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, while 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.

Oh!  Oh, well.

I still think 9MB is sort of excessive, though, but at least
*that* appears to be an MI problem. ;-)

- H=E5vard