Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:20:52AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
>  I'll leave it for a bit longer (somehow I never seem to keep
> regular hours these days!), but I'll probably kill it in the end.
> What is really odd is that bison isn't actually using memory, as if
> it is in a code loop.  'top' showed the following a few minutes ago:
> 
> top - 02:10:50 up 12:38,  1 user,  load average: 1.08, 1.51, 1.59
> Tasks: 108 total,   2 running, 106 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 12.3%us, 87.4%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi, 0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   1999912k total,  1966028k used,    33884k free,   261528k buffers
> Swap:  2929684k total,      320k used,  2929364k free,  1299576k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  5382 root      20   0  2316  816  696 R 97.7  0.0  78:51.06 bison
> 
>  and now (8 min later) bison's memory usage hasn't changed although
> it has been running at 95%+ of CPU for all the extra time.
> 
 Killed it after more than 200 minutes CPU - memory use hadn't
changed, it was still using as much CPU as it could get, nothing
more in the output.

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