On 2018-11-19 09:58:04 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-11-17 10:42:36 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > If this is a repeat occurrence, I don't have the slightest idea what
> > might be happening here other than asking you to try running atop with
> > debug info and trying to obtain a backtrace.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not possible. Perhaps with gdb and a breakpoint
> at this error message, but this might be too late.

I've put abort()'s, but indeed, that's too late to get meaningful
information.

> Or rebuilding atop with -fsanitize=undefined -fno-sanitize-recover
> would allow one to see where the problem occurs, since one can get a
> negative value:
> 
>   Malloc failed for -11968 exited processes
> 
> probably as the cause of some undefined behavior.

I've done that, but then, I can't reproduce the problem!

It might be due to a compiler bug, or because the code is too slow
in this case.

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