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bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512' |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Nov 2014 06:38:10 -0800 |
Your total free memory is obviously larger than 2GiB, but remember
that what's listed there is the total, while the offending usage
required a *contiguous* 2GiB region.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> Linux From Scratch 7.6
>>>
>>> configure and make were clean.
>>>
>>> $ env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make -k check
>>>
>>> big-match: skipped test: not enough main memory to run the test
>>> sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found
>>>
>>> I do have 8G of memory.
>>
>>
>> That test fails when grep fails to allocate enough space to hold a 2GiB
>> line.
>> No big deal, and not hard to imaging happening with a few applications
>> in 8GiB of RAM.
>
>
> Curious though. It should have been OK. I did not have any gui running at
> the time. Even if RAM was full, swap should have handled it.
>
> $ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 8105972 2380012 5725960 880 610460 326820
> -/+ buffers/cache: 1442732 6663240
> Swap: 10485756 3216 10482540
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
- bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512', (continued)
bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512', Jim Meyering, 2014/11/01