<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <<a href="mailto:andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com">andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; ">Try running ‘top’ or the Activity Monitor window while you do this. It sounds like the linker is either consuming address space like crazy, or maybe forking like crazy.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">My computer becomes very slow, too slow to type anything in Terminal.app, and too slow to launch the Activity Monitor.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Start up the monitor _before_ running the linker. Make sure both windows are visible.</div><div><br></div><div>—Jens</div></body></html>