From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16941 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 22:21:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Sep 2001 22:21:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 28201 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2001 22:20:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15789 Received: (qmail 28190 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 22:20:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:22:35 -0500 From: Monty Scroggins Subject: RE: zsh: fatal error: out of memory In-reply-to: <1010911140707.ZM24437@candle.brasslantern.com> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal I have some more info on this one - I finally found what appears to be a culprit. The .profile has a definition - HISTFILE=~/.sh_history; export HISTFILE This seems to have been what was causing me all the headaches... Is this a bug in ZSH? Is this something that ZSH should handle?? Thanks Monty -----Original Message----- From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:schaefer@brasslantern.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:07 AM To: Monty Scroggins; zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh: fatal error: out of memory On Sep 10, 1:26pm, Monty Scroggins wrote: } } Does anyone have any ideas on this one? } } zsh: fatal error: out of memory } } All of these machines are Sun SPARC boxes running } solaris 2.6.. It's possible that you're running into a per-process limit, most likely the maximum allowed size of the environment (e.g. the sum of the lengths of all the environment variable names plus values). Make sure you're NOT doing `setopt all_export' or some such; if your login shell is not zsh, try something like `printenv | wc' (I've forgotten whether solaris has printenv) to find out how big the environment is. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net