[bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-28 Thread Scott McPeak
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18396 Summary: stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug Project: make Submitted by: smcpeak Submitted on: Tuesday 11/28/2006 at 20:16 Severity: 3 - Normal

[bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug #18396 (project make): Item Group: Bug = Enhancement ___ Follow-up Comment #1: If 'make' needs to allocate a large amount (megabytes) of data, it would be better to do so on

[bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #18396 (project make): I wrote: if large amounts of memory are needed they are allocated on the stack Of course I meant on the _heap_ :-/. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18396

RE: [bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-28 Thread Martin Dorey
Using heap, which requires a system call to get more memory (It doesn't affect the main point of Paul's reply but just for academic interest) no it doesn't: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/playpen$ cat ten-thousand-mallocs.c #include stdlib.h int main() { for (int ii = 0; ii != 10 * 1000; ++ ii) {

RE: [bug #18396] stack size setrlimit call interacts badly with Solaris/x86 kernel bug

2006-11-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:45 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: Using heap, which requires a system call to get more memory (It doesn't affect the main point of Paul's reply but just for academic interest) no it doesn't: Even in less contrived applications, brk isn't called anything like as often

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2006-11-28 Thread Paul Smith
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2006-11-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
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