From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: robertl@dgii.com (Robert Lipe)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cc1 hog
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 14:23:00 -0000
Message-id: <199710012112.OAA22961@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <19971001141103.06154@dgii.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00053.html

[ ulimit ]

> Of course, deciding "how big is too big, while still allowing 'big enough'"
> is an exercise left for the astute reader.  I know that I arbitraily picked
> a number and found that many mysterious c-torture faliures were actually
> becuase the number I picked was too low.

Ah, but if a test successfully completes with a ulimit set one week, and
the next week requires triple the memory, isn't this, if not quite a
regression, something that should be looked at?  Until a few months ago
I ran a Linux box with 12M RAM and 16M swap.  I would have been really
annoyed if that machine could no longer compile the Linux kernel.