Re: gEDA-user: PCB problems

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 08:24 -0500, Harold D. Skank wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 11:16 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > What I find is that frequently when I start a job (most recently miter),
> > > the job starts OK, then the monitor shows that memory consumption starts
> > > to grow until I see of the order of 99.0-99.5% memory commitment.
> > 
> > Any messages in the console?  Like, warnings about a big undo buffer?
> 
> Nothing, the job just continues to run with all the memory consumed and
> the swap growing.  It appears that the machine is spending all of it's
> time moving memory around.
> 
     Harold Skank

Try (with a backup copy of your design saved) running the operation
again; but start PCB with:

gdb --args pcb <anything else for PCB's command line>

then type "run" (enter)

quickly after starting the operation which is eating all memory, switch
back to your terminal running the gdb debugger, and hit Ctrl-C to stop
the program.

type "backtrace" (enter)

And cut-paste the list here.

This should let the -devs know what code is actually being executed when
the problem occurs. It might be obvious from reading the code, I'm not
sure - however often a backtrace will help.

Regards,

- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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