Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 09:03:45 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: enok AT lysator DOT liu DOT se, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Optimize your PC 


> My recommendation is to get a 16 MByte machine and to give 3-4 MBytes to
> a disk cache.  This should win even for large projects.

When building gcc itself with -O2, I found that 16Mb was tight.  gcc
used 5Mb of virtual memory and 4Mb of temp space (ramdisk).  I gave
the rest to smartdrive (6Mb) for holding the compiler, objects,
editor, etc.

I've got 32M now - 14M cache, 4M ramdisk, 13M virtual, 1M dos.  No
problems now!

DJ