Re: How much space needed for a web server install?

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

SN Diamond <Norman.Diamond@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

 ...
> (Of course 256 MB RAM wouldn't be enough to try playing silly games like
> that if you were running Windows 2000, but you're not, you're running Linux.
> So surely all of the compiler's temporary files will fit in that amount of
> RAM?)

Gcc can be a voracious pig.  One of the files in IBM's libunicode
package requires about 2.5GB of virtual memory to compile.