Subject: Re: bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:48:53 -0700

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email-masked]> 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
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> 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.