Re: installation weirdness with Mac::Glue

[Chris Nandor]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Devers) wrote:

> I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell 
> to install it. The installation went, in part, like this:

[snip]

> At this point, things seemed to go haywire. The perl process was taking 
> up the bulk of CPU time, the virtual memory consumption for that process 
> was well over a gigabyte and growing, the system was almost completely 
> unresponsive, and it was staying that way for 20 minutes or more.
> 
> I've never seen a CPAN installation do this sort of thing before.

I've never seen a Mac::Glue installation do that before.


> So... in spite of some nasty looking errors, the installation made it to 
> the tests, and they appear to have all passed cleanly. 
> 
> Is this trustworthy?

No, because of this (which should cause the tests to fail, but does not, 
which I will fix in next release):

t/gluePlease run gluedialect and gluescriptadds programs at 
/Users/cdevers/.cpan/build/Mac-Glue-1.22/blib/lib/Mac/Glue.pm line 1341, 
 line 1.

Mac::Glue creates special glue files for the AppleScript core 
language/dialect, various scripting additions, programs, and so on.  Without 
those, Mac::Glue can't do much, and while it looks like maybe you got the 
dialect file installed -- the most important one -- it needs the others too.

You can try running those programs again, but I fear they would do the same 
thing if you don't change something.

I wonder if maybe Joel has the right idea with the memory thing.

If it continues to be a problem, I can try to hop on a dual G5 and try it 
out myself.

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Re: installation weirdness with Mac::Glue

[Joel Rees]

I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell
to install it. The installation went, in part, like this:
[...]
END failed--call queue aborted,  line 1.
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[10104]: error: Can't allocate region
Out of memory!
[...]
Kind of an odd-ball question, but you aren't short of disk space are 
you? what's the output of df?

installation weirdness with Mac::Glue

[Chris Devers]

I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell 
to install it. The installation went, in part, like this:

[...]
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Format::Glue.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Dialect.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Parser.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::Glue.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::App.3pm
Created and installed Dialect glue for AppleScript.rsrc (AppleScript)

At this point, things seemed to go haywire. The perl process was taking 
up the bulk of CPU time, the virtual memory consumption for that process 
was well over a gigabyte and growing, the system was almost completely 
unresponsive, and it was staying that way for 20 minutes or more.

I've never seen a CPAN installation do this sort of thing before.

Thinking something had gone off the rails, I did a `clean Mac::Glue`, 
then tried it again. The installation did the same thing at the same 
point, so I decided to just let it run while I watched television. The 
computer sat there making all kinds of painful noises for the next hour 
and a half before it settled down; when I came back to check, the 
following text was on the console:

Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Format::Glue.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Dialect.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Parser.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::Glue.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::App.3pm
Created and installed Dialect glue for AppleScript.rsrc (AppleScript)
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[8585]: error: Can't allocate region
Out of memory!
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[8585]: error: Can't allocate region
Out of memory!
END failed--call queue aborted,  line 1.
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[10104]: error: Can't allocate region
Out of memory!
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[10104]: error: Can't allocate region
Out of memory!
END failed--call queue aborted.
  /usr/bin/make -j3 -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" 
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/gluePlease run gluedialect and gluescriptadds programs at 
/Users/cdevers/.cpan/build/Mac-Glue-1.22/blib/lib/Mac/Glue.pm line 1341,  
line 1.
t/glueok
 
t/pod.ok
 
All tests successful.
Files=2, Tests=11,  6 wallclock secs ( 1.11 cusr +  0.30 csys =  1.41 CPU)
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK
Running make install
Appending installation info to 
///System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/perllocal.pod
Installing /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mac/Glue.pm
Installing /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mac/Glue/Common.pm
Installing /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mac/Glue/glues/dialects/AppleScript
Installing /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mac/Glue/glues/dialects/AppleScript.pod
Installing /man/man3/Mac::AETE::App.3pm
Installing /man/man3/Mac::AETE::Dialect.3pm
Installing /man/man3/Mac::AETE::Format::Glue.3pm
Installing /man/man3/Mac::AETE::Parser.3pm
Installing /man/man3/Mac::Glue.3pm
Writing 
///Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Mac/Glue/.packlist
  /usr/bin/make install -j3 -- OK

cpan> 

So... in spite of some nasty looking errors, the installation made it to 
the tests, and they appear to have all passed cleanly. 

Is this trustworthy?

This is a dual G5/1.8ghz running the stock version of Perl. In detail:

% hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
 Darwin Kernel Version 7.7.0:
Sun Nov  7 16:06:51 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Kernel configured for up to 2 processors.
2 processors are physically available.
Processor type: ppc970 (PowerPC 970)
Processors active: 0 1
Primary memory available: 1024.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 158 tasks, 316 threads, 2 processors
Load average: 0.06, Mach factor: 1.93

% sw_vers
ProductName:Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.7
BuildVersion:   7S215

% uname -a
Darwin macgarnicle 7.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov  7 
16:06:51 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc

% perl -v | grep -i 'this is perl'
This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level

Any ideas? Are installations like this normal for Mac::Glue?



-- 
Chris Devers