Subject: Re: current on vax, problems
To: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: current-users
Date: 11/22/2003 15:45:25
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> 
> > > Oh yeah, and be sure to bump up all your resource limits /before/
> > > starting your build.  I think I just got bitten by this one.  A groff
> > > process generating the "pic.ps" file just blew up on me.
> 
> > Eh, is _that_ the reason pic coredumps?  Gee, eating more than 64MB :-/
> 
> I don't know for certain.  When I started that first failed build my
> limits were set to the following:
> 
>   datasize        32768 kbytes
>
I just checked, and it is not because of failing limits.
Currently default MAXDSIZ is 128MB, and it still segfaults if I
rise the limit to 1GB.  ktracing pic shows that it doesn't allocate
especially much memory; 0x5b000 is the last break before the segfault.

-- Ragge