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

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 06:38:10 -0800

Your total free memory is obviously larger than 2GiB, but remember
that what's listed there is the total, while the offending usage
required a *contiguous* 2GiB region.

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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
>
>