8gb outta be enough for anybody. But It's not, I guess. Try with more RAM
or patch the part that grows to only grow to as much as you have.
Maybe something is using waaaaay too much....
On Aug 24, 2012 6:01 PM, "Alexander J. Vondrak" <ajvond...@csupomona.edu>
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Mini-update: got the unit tests for the global value numbering pass more
> up-to-snuff awhile ago (it's like test-driven development in reverse!).
> Still
> seems like I should be doing more to test the new capabilities, but I'm not
> sure if I could do much more than what's there.
>
> My efforts as of late have been focused on some GVN improvements. But for
> the
> past way-too-long, I thought I had broken something catastrophic because
> `load-all test-all` would invariably crash the listener with an "out of
> memory"
> error:
>
> Out of memory
>
> Nursery: Start=831c0000, size=100000, end=832c0000
> Aging: Start=82fc0000, size=200000, end=831c0000
> Tenured: Start=50c80000, size=32140000, end=82dc0000
> Cards:base=b44d0008, size=326800
> Aborted
>
> After a lot of very slow debugging (them's the breaks when running all the
> unit
> tests, I guess) that was ultimately fruitless, I finally tried out Factor
> 0.95
> straight from the build farm---none of my changes, no .git, just a clean
> download of the linux-x86-32 tarchive. And, what do you know, `load-all
> test-all` still crashes with the same error.
>
> It hadn't done that before, so I think the issue may be an intervening OS
> update I did. I'm running a fully up-to-date Debian testing, kernel
> 3.2.0-3-686-pae.
>
> 1) Can anyone reproduce this error? Or is my machine just that jacked up?
> I'd
> be happy to provide other diagnostic info, if it'd help.
>
> 2) Any coping mechanisms? I considered just throwing a bunch of memory at
> it
> with command line switches (-young=, -aging=, -tenured=, etc.), but wasn't
> really sure how much would do the trick, since it just started crashing
> like
> this out of the blue anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> --Alex Vondrak
>
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