[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7418) memory usage for compiling

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7418 >

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Thomas Strub wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:50:34AM +0100, Thomas Strub wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:30:21AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:56:27PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> > > > I agree that it is a lot. But you have 500mb in this computer. What is
> > > > the problem?
> > > 
> > > The problem ist that i have more programms running, and i don't want to
> > > close one of them because compiling freeciv.
> > 
> > More swap. You don't have to close programs but it will be slow for
> > awhile.
> 
> I know that swap would be a posible solution, but i don't want to use
> swap.

Either (more) swap, more RAM or less other programs.

> And why should freeciv need > 100 MB to compile and for the LINUX
> kernel 35 MB are enough?

Because freeciv has one large single file. Compare:

648716 ./common/packets_gen.c
173119 ./server/stdinhand.c
170791 ./client/gui-sdl/gui_stuff.c
143562 ./client/gui-sdl/dialogs.c
120736 ./client/gui-sdl/citydlg.c
119055 ./client/gui-gtk/citydlg.c
116147 ./server/unittools.c
109988 ./client/gui-sdl/mapview.c
107175 ./server/ruleset.c
104118 ./client/gui-sdl/graphics.c

with (linux 2.4.20):

874123 ./fs/nls/nls_cp949.c
741754 ./drivers/scsi/advansys.c
693339 ./fs/nls/nls_cp936.c
632394 ./drivers/scsi/qlogicfc_asm.c
593423 ./fs/nls/nls_cp950.c
489587 ./fs/nls/nls_cp932.c
401399 ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c
376809 ./drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c
359166 ./drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c
323491 ./drivers/telephony/ixj.c

It is very likely that you never compiled one of the above files. But
you may want to report the mem usage for compiling
./fs/nls/nls_cp949.c.

        Raimar

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