[Swarm-Support] emacs memory related trouble building Swarm on Suse

[Paul E. Johnson]

On a really nice Suse machine that one of the Swarm users lets me use, I 
was trying to build Swarm and it builds as usual.  That's great news, 
I've seen it with my own eyes.

Then, when I tried to build RPMs so other Suse users could install 
Swarm, tbe build gets through the objective C stuff and crashes with 
this emacs out of memory error:


cp -f 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/java/java-stub.el 
./    
_java-stub.el
TOP_BUILDDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf' 
B    
UILDDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf/java' 
S    
WARMSRCDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812' 
/usr/bin/emac    
s -batch -f batch-byte-compile 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.2003    
0812/=with-hdf/java/_java-stub.el
Wrote 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf/java/_java     

-stub.elc
Done
mv ./_java-stub.elc java-stub.elc
rm -f ./_java-stub.el
TOP_BUILDDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf' 
B    
UILDDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf/java' 
S    
WARMSRCDIR='/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812' 
/usr/bin/emac    
s -batch -l 
'/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/=with-hdf/jav     

a/java-stub.elc' -f java-run-all-unicode
Activity failed
ScheduleActivity failed
SwarmActivity failed
ForEachActivity failed
Index failed
PermutedIndex failed
PermutedIndex failed
ListIndex failed
Could not find `listBegin:' in `List_any'
Could not find `removeLast' in `List_any'
Could not find `removeFirst' in `List_any'
Could not find `addLast:' in `List_any'
Could not find `addFirst:' in `List_any'
MapIndex failed
Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers RET
make[2]: *** [Makefile.common] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.2003081    
2/=with-hdf/java'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.147.2003081    
2/=with-hdf'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9367 (%build)

That's a new one for me. 


The emacs edition is:
> rpm -q emacs 
emacs-21.2-144

In the emacs usenet group, one guy suggests that I don't really have 
enough memory, but:

> ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 7168
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


I'm not up against the open files limit? Am I?

While the compilation is going, the "top" command says I've got lots of 
swap space left, but the actual physical memory is getting pretty close 
to the limit.

top - 00:41:14 up 7 days, 12:32,  4 users,  load average: 1.32, 0.68, 0.61
Tasks:  77 total,   2 running,  75 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  19.0% user,   6.3% system,   0.0% nice,  74.7% idle
Mem:   2068664k total,  1904424k used,   164240k free,   149820k buffers
Swap:  4208976k total,        0k used,  4208976k free,  1329428k cached

I can successfully build the RPM for swarm objective c, just not the 
java part because emacs is processing files.

As usual, thanks for your ideas.

humbly yours,

PJ

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