Kenneth Zadeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am not going to see this failure on my machine.  I have a 2gb x86-64
> which will easily handle
> compiling this size file.   I was watching top as it compiled a stage2
> insn-addrtab, which I think is the largest function in the gcc stack
> and the VIRT topped at 501mb, which is no sweat for this machine.  You
> could argue, (and I would not disagree with you) that 501mb is not
> tolerable and is symptomatic of something bad happening.  There are,
> most likely storage leaks in the system.  But I do not think that you
> are going to necessarily find the problem by looking to see which
> version happens to crash on your machine.  The worst case senario is
> that this is just footprint creep and the version that failed was just
> the one the added the straw that broke the camels back with you
> particular config.

Ok, figured it out, it's my ulimit call:

ulimit -m 600000 -v 600000

So, memory usage has increased during the last days.  Don't we have
some automatic testers that look at memory usage as well?

Andreas
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