On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/6/18 2:40 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>
>> So the allocation fails, even if the system has enough memory to handle it.
>> Upon closer inspection:
>>
>> dualbus@ubuntu:~/src/gnu/bash/lib/malloc$ cat -n malloc.c | sed -n
>> '77
On 1/7/18 2:27 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>
> This is not related to Linux VM overcommit / OOM killer.
>
>
> From what I can see, Bash's internal memory allocator (lib/malloc/malloc.c,
> internal_malloc) is actually unable to allocate the ~580 MiB of VM, even if
> there's enough fre
On 1/6/18 2:40 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> So the allocation fails, even if the system has enough memory to handle it.
> Upon closer inspection:
>
> dualbus@ubuntu:~/src/gnu/bash/lib/malloc$ cat -n malloc.c | sed -n
> '777,781p'
>777 /* Silently reject too-large req
On 1/5/18 6:42 PM, Alfred Baroti wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this from long long time ago.
> Is this a serious bug?
>
>
> [root@n1x ~]#su nix
> nix@n1x:/root$ printf "%s\n"
> {{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}
> bash: xmalloc:
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:13:17PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You can see that the brk() system call actually succeeds.
>
> If you are running under the Linux kernel in the default configuration
> then memory overcommit is enabled.
>
> $ sysctl vm.overcommit_memory
>
> With overcommit enable
Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> Alfred Baroti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I found this from long long time ago.
> > Is this a serious bug?
> [...]
>
> This is not a serious bug at all. It's just a memory allocation failure.
Agreed. Not a bug at all.
> You can see that the brk() system call actually
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:42:25AM +0200, Alfred Baroti wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this from long long time ago.
> Is this a serious bug?
[...]
This is not a serious bug at all. It's just a memory allocation failure.
> [root@n1x ~]#su nix
> nix@n1x:/root$ printf "%s\n"
> {{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z}
