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ocamlc.opt tries to allocate 34 GB of RAM ... and fails

Richard Jones
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From:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] ocamlc.opt tries to allocate 34 GB of RAM ... and fails

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>  OK, but is there any case where ocamlc.opt should try to allocate
>  34 _gigabytes_ (in the 2nd [length] param of mmap(2)).

Hm, this seems overly excessive.  I haven't been able to reproduce the
problem on our Fedora 5 boxes (32 and 64bit) using any (including
older) OCaml-compiler.

Regards,
Markus

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