[Openmcl-devel] How to cut down the size of ccl

[Ron Garret]

At the risk of stating the obvious, you don't need the entire repo to run CCL.  All you need is the executable and an image file.  Together those are ~20MB.

rg

On May 6, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Leo wrote:

> On 2010-05-06 15:14 +0100, Bill St. Clair wrote:
>>> I want to run ccl on a remote machine that I only have 500M quota.
>>> However it seems ccl is about 303M. So I am a bit short of space. I have
>>> sbcl running there already and it takes about 57M. But I would wish to
>>> run ccl instead. The machine is linux x86-64. Any way around it? Many
>>> thanks.
>> 
>> Gary Byers will likely chime in with more detailed and accurate
>> information than I am able to give, but CCL doesn't use that 303
>> megabytes, unless you cons up enough data to fill it. It does, however,
>> RESERVE a large amount of space, in order to enable you to cons up huge
>> data structures. If you know you're not going to need that much, you can
>> use the -R (--heap-reserve) command line option to reduce the reserve
>> amount, but it's the RSS column of "ps aux" that tells how much RAM your
>> app is really using, not the VSZ column. See
>> http://ccl.clozure.com/manual/chapter15.1.html
> 
> But I mean the diskspace. I know it is ridiculously small. The machine's
> memory is quite large.
> 
> Leo
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