Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/06/23/09:03:40
Jacob,
I think the poster of that 64 Meg stuff was a little over-enthuasitic.
I run win95 with 16 megs of ram, and I have no problems with any/all
cygnus stuff. In fact, I have gone and compiled ircii, and ssh using the
cyngus tools, and I have never ran into any problems with 16 megs of ram.
(I never noticed my .swp file, but VC++ usually makes 95 make a 30+ meg
swap file, cygnus HAS to be better than that!!)
Now, obviously under NT, you might need more ram, since the overhead from
the OS is much larger, but I suspect 24 or 32 megs of ram would be fine.
Scott
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, root wrote:
> > >
> > > I am frequently getting the message:
> > >
> > > cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex
> > >
> > 1) if you are using NT, or Win95 you are not going to get much joy with less
> > than 64mb real memory, and about another 64mb of swap
>
> 64MB of RAM just to run an autoconf+some make. This is new to me.
> I didn't expect to see a message like this in 1997, only in 1999 2000.
> A program REQUIRING 64MB of RAM!!!!
> I thought that the first program that woould had those requirements would be
> a monstruous database/expert system/GUI program.
>
> NO. It was GNU Make!!!
>
> Congratulations to cygnus for establishing this record! I wonder when
> a Hello world program will need 1Gigabyte of RAM to start and some
> terabytes of disk to be stored...
>
>
>
>
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