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From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au
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Subject: Re: Can't mk 9pc 
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"Luther Huffman, Jr." <lutherh@mail.infinet.com> wrote:
|  I've been trying to apply the latest updates (816407398) to 
|  /sys/src/9/pc and I've run into a problem. 
|     The extraction and creation of the updated files goes smoothly. 
|  When I use "mk" on the patched source, the compilation goes off 
|  without a hitch. During linking, however, Plan 9 gives up the ghost 
|  and gives me the message "Out of memory". My Pentium PC has 16 MB of
|  RAM. Shouldn't that be enough to link 9pc?

I've been linking kernels on a 486DX2/66 with 8M.  It only worked when I 
started swapping onto a u9fs server.  The largest process size I saw was 
about 12M for 8l.  My links took about an hour each.

-- Christopher