On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
(incidentally...hey! It's Gentoo-related after all. ;) ) -- :wq
