Re: memory allocation bug in bash 4.2.39(1)-release

[Bob Proulx]

John Vincent wrote:
> I find that if I enter the command:
> echo {1..20000000}
> it runs, but afterwards whenever I enter another command I get the error:
> -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory

You need to allocate more virtual memory space to your machine.  You
are asking it to do more than it can do with the memory it has
available.

> I guess that the memory allocated to all those numbers on the echo
> command line is not freed properly.

This has been discussed previously.  Please see this message thread
for the previous discussion.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-11/msg00181.html

Bob