From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 3 18:28:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A14D14CE0 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12519; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:57:58 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <387159A8.C46C69E1@mysql.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:57:57 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Sasha Pachev Subject: Re: 2 hours to compile mysql? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, mysql@lists.mysql.com, Paul DuBois , monty@tcx.se, Leif Neland Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.. --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message