Re: [HACKERS] Why is "osprey" dumping core in REL8_2 branch?

2007-03-11 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The solution was to change the ulimit for data segment size. Oh really ... > Doesn't this mean that there is some place where the return value of > malloc is not checked for null ? You can see for yourself that the value *is* checked in

Re: [HACKERS] Why is "osprey" dumping core in REL8_2 branch?

2007-03-11 Thread RĂ©mi Zara
Hi, I know the answer :) I tried to find the patch that caused the failure, and when doing so, rechecking a build which had succeeded now failed. So this was an environment problem. The solution was to change the ulimit for data segment size. I hadn't thought of that because I had origin

Re: [HACKERS] Why is "osprey" dumping core in REL8_2 branch?

2007-03-10 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (gdb) info locals >> block = 0x4395000 >> chunk = 0x4395010 >> priorfree = 0x5395020 >> chunk_size = 16777216 >> blksize = 70864912 >> (gdb) p *block >> $5 = {aset = 0x306d10, next = 0x0, freeptr = 0x5395020 > out of bounds>, en