On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jorge Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Florian Philipp <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Am 22.08.2012 20:52, schrieb Jorge Almeida: >> >> This should not happen, especially on such a small archive. I've tried >> `strace xz -t m4-1.4.16.tar.xz` and looked for calls to mmap (e.g. >> memory allocations). They never were larger than 68 MB >> >> Try it yourself. The second parameter in mmap is the allocated size in byte. >> >> > In the box where it works:
[snip] > In the other box, in the gentoo chroot: > > # strace -e trace=mmap2 xz -t /usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.16.tar.xz [snip] > mmap2(NULL, 67112960, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, > -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) It's only asking for about 65MB of RAM there. ENOMEM is nearly a catch-all failure code for mmap(). My bet is that it's an incompatibility between the Arch kernel and the version of glibc in the chroot. -- :wq
