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[Bug sanitizer/55517] [ASAN] ASAN doesn't work with (soft) ulimit on virtual memory
- From: "anlauf at gmx dot de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:50:48 +0000
- Subject: [Bug sanitizer/55517] [ASAN] ASAN doesn't work with (soft) ulimit on virtual memory
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55517
--- Comment #10 from Harald Anlauf <anlauf at gmx dot de> ---
(In reply to Kostya Serebryany from comment #9)
> > I'd like to try ASAN on a system where the sysadmins enforce
> > a hard limit. Is this possible?
>
> No. asan requires 20Tb (+ a bit) of *virtual* memory to properly function.
> talk to your sysadmins to relax their limits
That will not happen. So ASAN will be unusable for me unless
it can be changed to work with a sane amount of virtual memory.
> >
> > I've set the soft limit to the same value as the hard limit,
> > but keep getting similar errors.