Subject: Re: Compiler timings on varous MVII NetBSDs etc.
To: James Lothian <simul8@simul8.demon.co.uk>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/25/2001 21:21:53
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, James Lothian wrote:

> allisonp@world.std.com wrote:
> > 
> > Only the MVII, MS2000 have the 16mb limit.  LAter machines are at least
> > capable of 32mb or much more.
> > 
> > personally I find it ghastly to need more than 16mb to compile reasonably.
> > Sound much more like disk flogging (not enough or large enough IO
> > buffers?).
> > 
> > Allison
> 
> Erm, the 750 has a 14Mb limit. And most 750s were 8Mb. I know it's not a
> microvax, but it's still a vaxentoy, at least as far as I'm concerned!

Actually, the limit is 22 MB, but that requires another memory controller,
which is less common...

	Johnny

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