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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!citec!sgccseh
From: sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: Marvellous Memory Munching Make
Organization: CITEC
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 02:00:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.020038.28923@citec.oz.au>
Keywords: where does it go? what does it do?
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	I've noticed that make seems to eat memory like there's no tomorrow.
Often I have to stop & restart a make because gcc et al complains about
being out of memory. I know that if I reinstall with something other than
the default swap size, then the problem will be hidden, but it seems like
this is not the optimal solution. BTW the leak only seems to happen when
make actually kicks off another program.


	Cheers,


	Stephen