From: sheikyy AT spartan DOT pei DOT edu (Sheik) Subject: Re: You can't stop progress 23 Jun 1997 09:03:40 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: jacob AT jacon DOT remcomp DOT fr Original-cc: Roger Kuhlman , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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... > > > > > -- > Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique > 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 > 93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 > France > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".