Fwd: GNU Global exhausts disk space

[Tu Do]

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From: Tu Do <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: GNU Global exhausts disk space
To: Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden>

I got over 9.1 GB free space, but root is less than 1 GB. Yes, probably because /tmp is too small. But I wonder, why only 100 MB of Boost generates such a huge database. I tried in ony latest Boost and Global generates quickly and the tag database is less than 100MB; I generated the tas in libs/ directory inside Boost source code.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi.

> - Extract boost.tar.gz archive.
> - Then run the command: gtags

In my environment, gtags exited normally.
How many free space are there in /tmp of your machine?
Probably /tmp is too small for sort command to create temporary file.

$ time gtags
80.401u 31.641s 3:24.02 54.9%   0+0k 0+0io 2pf+0w
$ ls -l G*
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto    1753088  9月 23 21:36 GPATH
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto   29335552  9月 23 21:36 GRTAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto 2109267968  9月 23 21:36 GTAGS

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:18:08 +0700
Tu Do <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried to generate GTAGS database on Boost source code and then gtags
> keeps running forever, despite the source tree is only more than 100MB. The
> attached file is the boost directory in my /usr/include installed from
> Ubuntu. Here are the step to reproduce:
>
> - Extract boost.tar.gz archive.
> - Then run the command: gtags
> - It keeps running forever until the OS pops a dialog box up saying that
> disk is out of space.
> - Then running gtags is terminated; the thing is, disk space is not
> actually consumed.
>
> If you cannot download the file from the email, you can download it here:
> http://www.mediafire.com/download/so40iih8ns2rpsz/boost.tar.gz

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Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden>