From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Stephen Kennedy" <steve@maths.tcd.ie>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC Mem Usage
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000
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>While compiling a large project with gcc,
>I notice that even though I have almost 1GB
>of free memory, during the link phase,
>gcc uses ~300MB of physical mem and ~200MB
>of virtual. Any ideas on why it is using
>virtual memory when there is a load of physical
>left?


try gcc -pipe or g++ -pipe which uses pipes
instead of temp files.

steve