Jim Meyering wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
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http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz
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Linux From Scratch 7.6
configure and make were clean.
$ env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make -k check
big-match: skipped test: not enough main memory to run the test
sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found
I do have 8G of memory.
That test fails when grep fails to allocate enough space to hold a 2GiB line.
No big deal, and not hard to imaging happening with a few applications
in 8GiB of RAM.
Curious though. It should have been OK. I did not have any gui running
at the time. Even if RAM was full, swap should have handled it.
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8105972 2380012 5725960 880 610460 326820
-/+ buffers/cache: 1442732 6663240
Swap: 10485756 3216 10482540
-- Bruce
