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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "Alan W. Trulock" <FredI@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Modula Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:27:44 -0400 Organization: ...ought never be organized... Lines: 17 Message-ID: <33C59A20.167EB0E7@worldnet.att.net> References: <5pv1n9$akn@news0-alterdial.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.116.66.109 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Todd D Suess <root@cracked.inspace.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44275 I can't answer you question directly, but I successfully compiled on a 386DX40 with 8MB of RAM and about 45MB of swap space. I had to do it piecemeal and it took forever, but it worked! --Alan Todd D Suess wrote: > > Anyone else had this problem? I wanted to compile and install CVsup, which > depends on Modula and the Modula libraries to compile. I have 24 megs of ram > and a 40 meg or so swap partition.. Even with virtually no programs running > at all except the minimum needed, Modula compiles for about 45 minutes, and > then crashes with a Swap_Space Exhausted error.. How much Swap/Memory does > Modula take to compile??? Obviously more than I have, but I am curious if > anyone knows how much it does take to compile... > > Todd