Re: [Sks-devel] normalbuild segfaults

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

address@hidden wrote:

> I tweaked it with "-n 64" (the machine got 32 GB of RAM). Sorry for not 
> paying due diligence when reporting, but that should still not crash the 
> process, or should it?
>
> It crashes after the output of "Loading keys...done" with values "-n 18" and 
> up.

I can see some functions that are not tail recursive¹ and could cause
some out of memory condition when “-n” is too big. We should probably
fix this. In the mean time check that your stack allocation is not
overly restrictive (ulimit -s).

¹ get_keys_rec 
(https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/40280f59d0f503da1326972757168aa42335573f/build.ml?at=default#cl-52)
  add_keys 
(https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/40280f59d0f503da1326972757168aa42335573f/keydb.ml?at=default#cl-1158)
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Kim Minh.
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