RE: zsh: fatal error: out of memory

[Monty Scroggins <c-Monty.Scroggins@xxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:07 AM
To: Monty Scroggins; zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
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.

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