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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Increasing GNAT's heap
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:23:23 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta writes on comp.lang.ada:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> Does anybody know a way to increase the heap size available for GNAT? It
>> crashes with famous GNAT BUG DETECTED, Storage_Error heap exhausted.
>>
>> GNAT 4.6.4 under Debian, testing, 32-bit
>
> Presuming the heap is really exhausted (i.e. the command "free" shows no
> free physical RAM and no free swap space left, and the command "top"
> shows the gnat1 process consuming close to 4 GiB of resident memory)
> then I'd suggest that you cannot increase the heap.  So, you should
> compile smaller source files.
>
> I'd try to identify which subprogram causes the problem and place that
> subprogram in a compilation unit of its own (e.g. a private child unit).

Maybe I forgot the obvious: of course, you know you can increase swap
space easily by creating a file filled with zeroes and saying "swapon
$the_new_file" as root.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.