rasort coredump (Peter Van Epp)

[Peter Van Epp]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:11:59PM +0730, CS Lee wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Thanks, that's not a issue of rasort, should be the cause of the
> limitation of my box, I tried to run rasort with -R for the files
> lesser than 300MB and it goes fine and only after it exceeds certain
> big file size then it goes dumping. I'm now recompiling my kernel to
> see how things go.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> 
> CS Lee<geek00L[at]gmail.com>

	Running out of memory isn't an rasort issue I agree, the segfault when
it does run out of memory is. The calloc call should return failure and rasort
should issue the out of memory message (which as I recall it did) and then 
exit gracefully rather than seg fault. The seg fault would indicate that 
something is trying to use the unallocated memory which is likely a bug. 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada