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

From: Bruce Dubbs <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:56:11 -0500

Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email-masked]> wrote:
> ...
>>>>     http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz
> ...
>> Linux From Scratch 7.6
>>
>> configure and make were clean.
>>
>> $ env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make -k check
>>
>> 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.

Curious though.  It should have been OK.  I did not have any gui running 
at the time.  Even if RAM was full, swap should have handled it.

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      8105972    2380012    5725960        880     610460     326820
-/+ buffers/cache:   1442732    6663240
Swap:    10485756       3216   10482540

   -- Bruce