Re: htags stops with "cannot fork"

[Dan Shearer]

Thanks for the prompt reply! Here's more info.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:21:33PM +1030, Dan Shearer wrote:
 
> As my first test I unpacked the Linux kernel 2.4.23, applied apatches
> and then ran gtags. No problems, and several Gb of files created. Then I
> ran 
> 
>       htags --caution -aFnsvt 'Browse the UML 2.4.23-um2 tree'
> 
> and it spent a long time indexing nearly a million different symbols (I
> gathered this by glancing at the output from time to time.) The stage
> 'Creating temporary database' took a long time, but it did finish.
> 
> Finally I got this:
> 
>     :
>     :
>  [2466/11089] converting arch/sparc64/kernel/signal.c
>  [2467/11089] converting arch/sparc64/kernel/signal32.c
>  [2468/11089] converting arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c
> htags: cannot fork.
> 
> I can raise process limits and things, but my question is why should

These are the settings:

$ ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 16383
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited

So there isn't a lot to raise. I will try again without the 's' parameter
(but I would try out lxr before using htags without 's').

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Dan Shearer
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