Re: GNU Global exhausts disk space

[Tu Do]

Hi,

Thank for your help. It works.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi.

> But I wonder, why only 100 MB of Boost generates
> such a huge database.

The GTGAS database includes the image of tagged line.
And the boost header has a lot of very long lines.
You can make GTAGS smaller by using -c option of gtags.


generated with `gtags'

$ ls -l GTAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto 2109267968 Sep 23 21:36 GTAGS

generated with `gtags -c'

$ ls -l GTAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 iwamoto iwamoto 8306688 Sep 24 00:21 GTAGS


On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:40:20 +0700

Tu Do <address@hidden> wrote:

> I got over 9.1 GB free space, but root is less than 1 GB. Yes, probably
> because /tmp is too small. But I wonder, why only 100 MB of Boost generates
> such a huge database. I tried in ony latest Boost and Global generates
> quickly and the tag database is less than 100MB; I generated the tas in
> libs/ directory inside Boost source code.
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Hideki IWAMOTO <address@hidden>
> >
> >

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