Re: eclipse / sunos 4

From: Joachim Schimpf <j.schimpf_at_icparc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Mon 12 Feb 2001 03:21:02 PM GMT
Message-ID: <3A87FF5E.CCD96414@icparc.ic.ac.uk>
Thierry Besancon wrote:
> 
> We're having problem running eclipse 5.1 on a SunOS 4.1.3
> workstation.
> 
> When we start the program, it says :
> 
> $ ./eclipse
> 
> *** ECLiPSe fatal error: Cannot reserve stack space in alloc_stack_pairs()


Thanks Thierry, we hadn't noticed this problem...

It is caused by an "improvement" to memory allocation that
we put into Eclipse between 5.0 and 5.1, in connection with
a shortcoming of the SunOS4 mmap() system call.
The mmap() should not reserve swap space for all the 265 Mo
but it does so on SunOS4. The problem does not occur on
SunOS5 or Linux.

You should be able to run Eclipse by specifying smaller
stack sizes, e.g.

eclipse -g 32m -l 8m

This will still reserve 40 Mo of swap space, so you can
only run about 2 such Eclipses on your machine.

We will try to find a workaround. I'll let you know
when it is fixed.

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Received on Mon Feb 12 15:21:02 2001

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