environment is too large for exec

environment is too large for exec

[Satish Balay]

Hi,

I'm seeing the following error from cygwin:

"environment is too large for exec"

I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to increase the current 'max env'?

Please include me in cc: in replies.

Thanks,
Satish

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Note: In a prior run - I got the following [confusing] error. I'm assuming its the same issue.



#	n "bc_ctl.arg_max >= LINE_MAX" failed: file "/usr/src/findutils-4.6.0-1.x86_64/src/findutils-4.6.0/xargs/xargs.c", line 500, function: main
#	/home/glci2/builds/p34_q_s8/0/petsc/petsc/lib/petsc/bin/petscdiff: line 60: 42848 Done                    cat ex19_logviewmemory.tmp
#	     42852                       | grep MatFDColorSetUp
#	     42856                       | wc -w
#	     42858 Aborted                 (core dumped) | xargs -I % sh -c "expr % \> 21" > ex19_logviewmemory.tmp.filter_tmp


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Re: environment is too large for exec

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Satish Balay!

> I'm seeing the following error from cygwin:

> "environment is too large for exec"

> I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to increase the current 'max env'?

As far as I recall, this is an OS limit.
Most often this is caused by an overgrown %PATH% variable. Inspect it and
cleanup from stuff unused/unnecessary. There's many ways to make executables
visible without adding them to %PATH%.


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Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 22:24:03

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: environment is too large for exec

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Andrey Repin wrote:

> Greetings, Satish Balay!
> 
> > I'm seeing the following error from cygwin:
> 
> > "environment is too large for exec"
> 
> > I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to increase the current 'max env'?
> 
> As far as I recall, this is an OS limit.

Ah so that can't be changed. Thanks for the info.

> Most often this is caused by an overgrown %PATH% variable. Inspect it and
> cleanup from stuff unused/unnecessary. There's many ways to make executables
> visible without adding them to %PATH%.

In this case - it was gitlab-runner setting up an env var with the commit message - this was long.

Satish

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