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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2004-09-12 23:25:40
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Tom, Nick, Thanks for tracking this one down and fixing it. I'm not clear what the root cause of the problem was (which set of changes yesterday caused it?) and in particular whether the fix needs to be done also on _2_2_0_BRANCH ? J On Sunday 12 September 2004 22:11, Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <Pin...@he...> > > Nicholas Nethercote <nj...@ca...> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Julian Seward wrote: > > > Friday night's build went as usual on SuSE 9.1. However, last > > > night's build produces a memcheck which eats all the memory and > > > swap and thrashes the machine to hell, even with trivial progs > > > (ls). Furthermore, this message appears at startup: > > > > > > Warning: set address range perms: large range 2147483647, a 1, v 1 > > > > > > and it didn't used to. > > > > Oh yeah, I forgot to say: it's almost certainly a call to ban_mem_stack > > or die_mem_stack with a -1 argument... > > Yep. I've found the problem - it wasn't happening for me because I have > an 8Mb stack limit set in my environment. I'll commit a fix shortly. > > Tom |