Re: Debugging memory usage

2013-06-24 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:45:19AM -0700, John Reiser wrote: > > I took a look and saw the bash process consuming as much as 3+ GB of > > memory. I'm not doing anything where I'd expect to be consuming that > > much memory. > > As a workaround, try using "ulimit -v" to restrict the virtual memo

Debugging memory usage

2013-06-23 Thread Bob Bell
I have a fairly involved script that handles some build management tasks, which can run for as long as several hours. I've recently seen it fail primarily due to failures to fork due to insufficient memory. I took a look and saw the bash process consuming as much as 3+ GB of memory. I'm not