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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
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Subject: Re: 386BSD - much slower with 16MB
Date: 10 Feb 1993 18:08:33 GMT
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In article <C2809r.6vz@rahul.net> kent@rahul.net (Kent Talarico) writes:
>I just increased my memory from 8MB to 16MB and the machine has
>slowed down drastically.
>
>I timed a complete compile of /bin/sh. It took 52 seconds with 8MB
>and 163 seconds with 16MB.


Hot tip for the week!!


I just timed mine with 4Mb RAM at 26 seconds!  Based on the preliminary
evidence, time to compile should approach zero if you remove all memory
from your machine!


pauls@umich.edu