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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 16 Jan 2004 at 13:49, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>Anthony J. Albert wrote:
[SNIP]
>> I have tried to run compiles on a 4MB 386SX, 
>
>Ouch!  Compiling is the toughest stuff you can do on a computer.
>You need plenty of RAM and CPU grunt.  For kernel compiles, I 
>use Mosix to combine a P166 (64mb RAM) and a P200 (128mb RAM).
>Even then, it takes half an hour.

Well, this was more in the nature of experiementation, fortunately.  I 
did find that I could compile small things, probably as much as a 
couple hundred lines of C code, but that the larger ones just ran out 
of memory.  Even trying to compile the network module for the network 
card I had bombed out, complaining about not enough memory - this after 
adding 32MB of swap... but ran okay after I added RAM to bring the 
system up to 12MB.

Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert                     albert AT umpi.maine.edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
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