bootstrap/8971: virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space

Thu Mar 27 15:47:00 GMT 2003

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/8971; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bootstrap/8971: virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:40:50 -0600 (CST)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:18:07 +0100
 From: Ingolf Knopf <iknopf@csc-dd.de>
 To: neroden@gcc.gnu.org, bangerth@dealii.org
 Subject: Re: bootstrap/8971: virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space

 Am Samstag, 21. Dezember 2002 04:42 schrieben Sie:
 > Synopsis: virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: bangerth
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 20 19:42:54 2002
 > State-Changed-Why:
 >     Regarding your report: I think it would be valuable to
 >     know how much physical memory your machine has (and how
 >     much of that was used by other processes at the time of
 >     the failure, although this is admittedly hard to determine
 >     afterwards.
 >
 >     Also, did you set a limit to the virtual memory available
 >     on this shell, using ulimit?
 >
 >     Danke
 >       Wolfgang
 >
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&
 >pr=8971

 Am Dienstag, 25. MÃ¤rz 2003 19:26 schrieben Sie:
 > Synopsis: virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
 > State-Changed-By: neroden
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 25 18:26:15 2003
 > State-Changed-Why:
 >     We needed information on how much memory was available, and didn't get
 > it for 3 months.
 >
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&
 >pr=8971

 Sorry for beeing late.
 My workstation has 512MByte RAM and 1.5GByte swap space.
 Last 'ps ux'/'swapon -s' befor generation error is:

 Swap partition /dev/rz0b (default swap):
     Allocated space:       196608 pages (1536MB)
     In-use space:            1854 pages (  0%)
     Free space:            194754 pages ( 99%)

 Total swap allocation:
     Allocated space:       196608 pages (1536MB)
     Reserved space:          8588 pages (  4%)
     In-use space:            1854 pages (  0%)
     Available space:       188020 pages ( 95%)
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 ../gcctest-memory.ksh
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 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosi
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 bootstrap
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 kdeinit: Running...
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 Swap partition /dev/rz0b (default swap):
     Allocated space:       196608 pages (1536MB)
     In-use space:            1854 pages (  0%)
     Free space:            194754 pages ( 99%)

 Total swap allocation:
     Allocated space:       196608 pages (1536MB)
     Reserved space:          7636 pages (  3%)
     In-use space:            1854 pages (  0%)
     Available space:       188972 pages ( 96%)