Comment 10 for bug 725881

--dynamic-space-size indeed alters the behavior of SBCL, but it's not enough
to fix it completely. Anything under 26 prevents SBCL from running, anything
over 26 crashes to a low level debugger.

$ sbcl --dynamic-space-size 25
This is SBCL 1.0.40.0.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
dynamic space too small for core: 26584KiB required, 25600KiB available.
andrew@hactar:~$ sbcl --dynamic-space-size 26
This is SBCL 1.0.40.0.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 10165(tid 3085133504):
CATS. CATS ARE NICE.

Welcome to LDB, a low-level debugger for the Lisp runtime environment.
ldb>

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker
www.yellosoft.us

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Nikodemus Siivola <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> That's as expected. ulimit -v is normally unlimited, so lowering it
> should not help -- but a smaller --dynamic-space _will_ help if you for
> some reason need run under a small ulimit.
>
> (This is why I was sarcastic about #scheme: they led you after a red
> herring which had nothing to do with your issue.)
>
> Can you find out what's the Xen version you're running under? As said,
> AFAIK > 3.1 should work with SBCL.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725881
>
> Title:
> Crashes on Ubuntu / Xen
>
> Status in Steel Bank Common Lisp:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> When I try to install or run SBCL on a Ubuntu Xen virtual host, SBCL
> crashes.
>
> SBCL works fine on MacPorts / Mac OS X.
>
> SBCL works fine on VMware hosts.
>
> SBCL fails with "CATS ARE NICE" on Xen hosts.
>
> Specs:
>
> SBCL 1.0
>
> Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
>
> Xen
>
> Trace:
>
> $ sbcl
> This is SBCL 1.0.40.0.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 25850(tid 3085133504):
> CATS. CATS ARE NICE.
>
>
> Welcome to LDB, a low-level debugger for the Lisp runtime environment.
>
> I have also posted this bug on StackOverflow:
> http://superuser.com/questions/250766/sbcl-fails-to-install-on-ubuntu-
> xen
>
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