isaacs/npm — Issue #1924: npm search (Building the index for the first time) fails on OpenBSD
Author: jseb
Created: 2011-12-22 20:34:39+00:00
State: open

OpenBSD 5.0 amd64
node v0.4.9 (precompiled package)

npm installed with: 'sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh' (after symlinking gnutar for /bin/tar)

npm search uglify

npm WARN Building the index for the first time, please be patient

... process size (from top) grows after a while pretty rapidly to around 500MB, and then

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Abort trap (core dumped)