Bug 443304

Summary: Unison fails with "Out of memory" error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Manuel Morales <mmorales>
Component: unison227Assignee: Stephen Warren <swarren>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Manuel Morales 2008-04-20 13:32:43 UTC
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Description of problem:
When synchronizing directories with a large number of files, I get an out of memory error. Running with "-debug all" shows the following:

Growing heap to 10132k bytes
Growing page table to 34357992238 entries
No room for growing page table
Uncaught exception Out of memory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
unison227-2.27.57-8.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start unison
2. Synchronize directories
3. Out of memory and crash

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Comment 1 John Poelstra 2008-04-21 17:28:24 UTC
thanks for reporting this bug

Comment 2 Dan Winship 2008-05-13 00:09:15 UTC
This only happens with the x86_64 package; if you install unison227.i386 instead
it works fine. So it's some sort of 64-bit uncleanliness.


Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:47:02 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Stephen Warren 2008-05-14 11:34:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 441685 ***