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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:57:57 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Sasha Pachev <sasha@mysql.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, mysql@lists.mysql.com, Paul DuBois <paul@snake.net>, monty@tcx.se, Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>
Subject:   Re: 2 hours to compile mysql?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000104125757.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <387159A8.C46C69E1@mysql.com>

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On 04-Jan-00 Sasha Pachev wrote:
>  There is actually a method to portably guess how much RAM your have
>  available
>  from configure -- just write a small C program that will keep
>  malloc()-ing until
>  it gets an error, but I do not think it is worth the effort.

Especially since different users have different memory size limits..

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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