squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 13. Juli 2009 13:20:42 +0200 Pascal Gienger 
<Pascal.Gienger at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

> Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb:
>> Processing index character 101, 681642 total words, temp file size is
>> 2107147
>> fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted
>
> 4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries?

Perhaps, although I haven't seen it.

> How much RAM does squatter allocate before it dies?

I monitored the process like this:

# while true; do grep VmSize /proc/16815/status; sleep 1; done;

The last lines are:

VmSize:	 2453772 kB
VmSize:	 2454608 kB
VmSize:	 2454608 kB
VmSize:	 2454884 kB
VmSize:	 2192664 kB
VmSize:	 2192664 kB

Of course it's possible that it then tried to allocate one huge chunk, but 
I can't see that. Are there better tools to monitor the memory allocation 
of a process?

Thanks!
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