[tex-live] TL6 install report

Petr Sojka sojka@informatics.muni.cz
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:46:06 +0200


On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> * Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Fabrice Popineau writes:
> >> * Petr Sojka <sojka@informatics.muni.cz> writes:
> >> 
> >> > fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 64000008 bytes).
> >> 
> >> I'm afraid that this one will beat a few people. This is a straight
> >> consequence of enlarging tex to handle all the languages available
> >> on the texlive.
> 
> > I am puzzled by this. is it genuinely running out of memory?
> 
> I guess yes: 64Mb need to be allocated in  one block if I'm right. Can
> we have the  details about main memory and  swap disk  space when this
> problem occured ?

It was on 
$ uname -a
SunOS daeron.fi.muni.cz 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
128MB RAM

wsinfo tells swap is 190MB.
top currently shows 
Memory: 128M real, 13M free, 98M swap in use, 92M swap free

I do think it is machine that should suffice for installation run
of texlive6?

--ps