%% Ted Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ts> My version of the "make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop." bug ts> occurs from trying to include 1000's of files. It doesn't matter ts> how large the files are --- what is important is the length of the ts> files' pathnames. If I allow 128 mega words (1GB) for the qsub ts> job, the error occurs with about 5000 80 character filenames. If ts> I allow 16MW or 128MB for the job, the error occurs with about ts> 1500 included files of about 80-character pathnames each.
ts> In earlier correspondence with Paul Smith, he indicated that he ts> thought there may be a memory leak in read.c. ts> I have verified that the bug has not been fixed in current CVS. ts> Sure would be nice if somebody with access to purify could run it ts> on GNU make ... I have run the GNU make test suite with Purify on Solaris, and valgrind on Linux, and neither have reported any memory leaks with the latest CVS code. If you have a test case that can show this problem pls. let me know. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
