Brion, Doubling the memory limit resolved my problem. Thanks for the suggestion (and the quick response). Keith Welter
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > Memory limits are notoriously difficult to deal with on Unix like systems. > Virtual memory address space can easily be exhausted mapping in the program > itself, its libraries, and sometimes even scratch files might be memory > mapped, eating address space up further. > > Usage also tends to be higher on 64-bit machines than 32, which was I think > still common when we set the defaults. > > Probably we should just double the default and see if that's more > reliable... > > -- brion > On Jan 29, 2015 9:27 AM, "Keith Welter" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The GraphViz extension uses wfShellExec() to invoke the "dot" command. > > Sometime in the last month or so, on my Ubuntu 14.04 installation, the > > command started failing with: > > Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gd.so.6" - file > > not found > > > > The file does exist and the dot command runs fine from a shell session. > > > > I found that by eliminating the ulimit -v option from ulimit4.sh, which > > wfShellExec() invokes, the problem goes away. > > > > The -v limit is 102400 on my installation (so 100Mb). I find it hard to > > believe that dot actually needs that much virtual memory. > > > > Suggestions on how to proceed with debug would be much appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Keith Welter > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
