Re: GNU Global exhausts disk space

[Hideki IWAMOTO]

Hi.

> - Extract boost.tar.gz archive.
> - Then run the command: gtags

In my environment, gtags exited normally. 
How many free space are there in /tmp of your machine?
Probably /tmp is too small for sort command to create temporary file. 

$ time gtags
80.401u 31.641s 3:24.02 54.9%   0+0k 0+0io 2pf+0w
$ ls -l G*
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto    1753088  9月 23 21:36 GPATH
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto   29335552  9月 23 21:36 GRTAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto 2109267968  9月 23 21:36 GTAGS


On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:18:08 +0700
Tu Do <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried to generate GTAGS database on Boost source code and then gtags
> keeps running forever, despite the source tree is only more than 100MB. The
> attached file is the boost directory in my /usr/include installed from
> Ubuntu. Here are the step to reproduce:
> 
> - Extract boost.tar.gz archive.
> - Then run the command: gtags
> - It keeps running forever until the OS pops a dialog box up saying that
> disk is out of space.
> - Then running gtags is terminated; the thing is, disk space is not
> actually consumed.
> 
> If you cannot download the file from the email, you can download it here:
> http://www.mediafire.com/download/so40iih8ns2rpsz/boost.tar.gz

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Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden>