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 <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> >> 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 > >
