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Re: glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/14/2016 12:46 PM, Sinny Kumari wrote:
>
>> Indeed, it affected emacs build on ppc64(le) . emacs build failure on
>> ppc64(le) was giving message
>> "Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers then exit and restart Emacs".
>> Later on, building emacs (tried on ppc64 machine locally) with
>> increased memory (~15GB) succeeded.
>
>
> I expect that the compiled emacs binary will occasionally need ~12 GiB of
> RAM as well.  Could you check if this is the case?

Yeah, you are right. Running emacs on even a small c file(20 lines)
uses ~12.2 GB
memory

> And then run Emacs under “setarch --addr-no-randomize”, to see if it makes a
> difference.

when I ran emacs under setarch it uses very reasonable amount of memory (few MB)
Command I used was "setarch ppc64 --addr-no-randomize  emacs foo.c"


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