Re: man-pages-posix: POSIX book build

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Brian,

At 2023-08-13T15:04:03-0600, Brian Inglis wrote:
> When I ran the perl script, eqn was growing into the GB memory, and
> eqn and troff were each hogging a cpu, so I left it running while we
> were out at dinner with friends, but *eqn* died after apparently
> exhausting all memory and using 48GB page space, getting as far as
> limits.h(0p) for a 57 page PDF!

Gack.  If this was GNU troff, please report it officially.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=groff&func=additem

Please attach the offending exhibit and any script(s) necessary to drive
the issue.  If you have time to truncate the input to the page after
limits.h(0p), and the bug reproduces, that would be helpful.

I only know of one other issue like this, but it has nothing to do with
eqn, and it tarpits every *roff it meets.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64229

But eqn itself doesn't create or use diversions (it can't--it's already
exited by the time a "diversion" exists), so at first blush I think
something else must be making it go asymptotic.

Regards,
Branden

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