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Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop. |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:47:23 -0400 |
%% Ted Stern <address@hidden> writes:
ts> My version of the "make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop." bug
ts> occurs from trying to include 1000's of files. It doesn't matter
ts> how large the files are --- what is important is the length of the
ts> files' pathnames. If I allow 128 mega words (1GB) for the qsub
ts> job, the error occurs with about 5000 80 character filenames. If
ts> I allow 16MW or 128MB for the job, the error occurs with about
ts> 1500 included files of about 80-character pathnames each.
ts> In earlier correspondence with Paul Smith, he indicated that he
ts> thought there may be a memory leak in read.c.
ts> I have verified that the bug has not been fixed in current CVS.
ts> Sure would be nice if somebody with access to purify could run it
ts> on GNU make ...
I have run the GNU make test suite with Purify on Solaris, and valgrind
on Linux, and neither have reported any memory leaks with the latest CVS
code.
If you have a test case that can show this problem pls. let me know.
Thanks.
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- make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Fabio Alemagna, 2003/06/22
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Paul D. Smith, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Fabio Alemagna, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Paul D. Smith, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Fabio Alemagna, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Paul D. Smith, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Fabio Alemagna, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Paul D. Smith, 2003/06/23
- Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop., Fabio Alemagna, 2003/06/23