Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM...

Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Mon, 28 May 2001 22:55:33 -0400


> Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> RAM deeply into swap:
>
> Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K buff
> Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K cached
>
> Vanilla 2.4.5 VM.

I noticed that too and there is no way around it. If we assume
a 2.5xRAM target, you must add about 704MB. In my case I had no
spare partition so I added a swapfile, as undoubtedly many
2.4 sufferers did.

-- Pete
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