On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz stipulated:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:16:22PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2005, John David Anglin spake:
>> >> : out of memory allocating 12016 bytes after a total of 4161654476 bytes
>> >
>> > You need to increase the application limits for data on your system.
>>
>> No, something is very wrong here, I think. genattrtab has allocated
>> *4Gb*!
[snip]
> Note that that's a total allocation, not a peak allocation. The 4GB
> total isn't unlikely, with all the PPC DFAs.
Oh, right: I misread this as an OS-sourced message, not the one from
xmalloc(). Sorry for the misinformation.
Getting useful information out of this has just become practical.
Good. :)
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--- Peter da Silva
