Re: Sane compilation ate my ram!

Raymond A. Ingles (inglesra@frc.com)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:49:10 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jim Ford wrote:

> I've just ordered a scanner and decided in the meantime to install the
> software. I grabbed the latest Sane package (0.72) and have tried
> compiling it. It first ate my 64 meg of ram and then when that ran out,
> started snacking on my swap partition. When _that_ ran out, it burped
> and announced "virtual memory exhausted" (in line 3686 of compiling
> umax.c)!

The output of "free", "vmstat", and/or "procinfo" during this process
would be helpful. These would help narrow down what process is eating
the memory, at least.

Sincerely,

Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com

Two rules for success in life:
1. Don't tell people everything you know.

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