Re: Problems with big sequences

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Antti,

> > Could you send me a program reproducing that bug? I will then have a look
> > into it. So far I have no idea, what that could be.
> 
> A piece of demo code with a README can be found at
> 
> http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/attuomin/demo.tgz
> 
> Now the exact limit of the offending call is 2086885 bytes. A bit more,
> since there is some stuff missing, when compared to the original call that
> caused this phenomenon in the first place.

Actually that looks like a bug in the linux writev implementation. I'm not
sure, whether in glibc or the kernel, but for sizes above a certain amount it
just dumps core.... I changed it to use at most 1000 iovecs.

Please try the following new version. It worked here:

http://i81pc4.ira.uka.de/ORBit/ORBit-mt-0.5.3a.tar.gz

Bye,
Sebastian
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