No further comment and it has been about a year. Closing the bug report.
- bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in 2.5.4? Aaron Davies
- bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in 2.5.... Aaron Davies
- bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in ... Jim Meyering
- bug#21527: avoiding "memory exhausted" in 2.5.... Paul Eggert