Bug#323618: Virtual memory ulimit

[Barry Hawkins]

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Seo Sanghyeon wrote:
> Hello, I am "another user" Greg mentioned. We discussed this, and I
> think we found the problem:
[...]
> I measured the command's memory usage with top, and it reports 763 M.
> Consistent with this, Greg reports "ulimit -v 700000; java..." fails,
> but "ulimit -v 800000; java..." succeeds. Greg had virtual memory limit
> set to 300000 when he ran java-package.
> 
> It is likely that this can explain #300546 too.
> 
> I suggest displaying a warning to user if user has virtual memory limit
> set, just like "Probably not enough free disk space" warning.
> 
> Seo Sanghyeon
[...]
Greg/Seo,
    Thanks very much for your use of Debian and java-package, as well as
the detailed information and troubleshooting you have undertaken.  We'll
certainly check this out; given the number of JDKs and JREs that
java-package has to support, we don't typically have the time to
allocate to tracking down these more esoteric issues for a particular
JDK and version.  I will discuss this with the other primary maintainer.
 Feel free to post any further findings and/or information.

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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