Re: out of memory building oct file

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Paul Probert wrote:
> Folks,
>   I'm trying to build a moderate size (500 line) DLD into an oct file, 
> and mkoctfile runs a long time then bombs with "g++: Internal Error: 
> Killed (program cc1plus)" I am running on SUsE 8.2 with gcc 3.3, octave 
> 2.1.63. When I watch with system monitor, I can see why its getting 
> killed - it slowly uses up all 256M of memory and then all of the 486 M 
> of swap space and then gets killed.
>   Does anybody have any experience with this? Can a bad c++ program do 
> this, or is gcc 3.3 known for having a problem like this?

It is not unheard of that gcc uses up 500+ MB. I think 3.3 was particular
memory hungry. 256MB RAM / 486 MB swap is a really, really modest system
by today's standards (I think e.g. RedHat would refuse to install on anything
less than 256M of RAM). So, while this particular case does rise some
suspicion, I would not be calling it a bug just yet. The quick test is
to add 1GB of swap file and see if it compiles with that.

> Thanks,
> Paul Probert
> University of Wisconsin

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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