Got "Cannot allocate memory" in Go 1.8, after strip app, run successfully.

[subchen]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.8 darwin/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/rm/pwgcqbl91wl2kj768xl2967h0000gn/T/go-build524964552=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

What did you do?

I upgrade my mac from 10.10 (Yosemite) to 10.12.1 (macOS Sierra).

Then I cannot run binary which go build outputted, and no errors found in /var/log/system.log.
But after I strip it, I can run it successfully.

Note:

1. I can run my project before I upgraded my macos.
2. I also can run simple hello_world.go, seem the binary is too big to load into memory.

Simplified Makefile

run:
    go build -o app
    ./app

then, I run followings

$ make run
make: ./app: Cannot allocate memory
make: *** [run] Error 1

$ ./app
Killed: 9

$ ls -l app
-rwxr-xr-x   1 subchen  wheel  5902620 Apr 15 14:08 app

$ strip app

$ ls -l app
-rwxr-xr-x   1 subchen  wheel  5092444 Apr 15 14:13 app

$ ./app
Listening https://192.168.199.153:8080/v1/ ...

[rob-deutsch]

I believe this is a known issue (see #19734). There is also one comment in that thread noting that stripping the binary seems to fix it.

[ALTree]

Yes, this is likely #19734. Please upgrade to go1.8.1, that should fix it.

Closing. Comment here if you can still reproduce with go1.8.1. and we'll re-open.

[subchen]

I upgrade to go1.8.1, this issue is gone.
Thanks for your comments.

[taylortrimble]

I reproduced this on go 1.8.1

Steps

$ make clean
rm -f baltodash  api/balto.pb.go
rmdir api
go clean

$ go clean -i

$ make run
mkdir api
/Users/tylrtrmbl/thenewtricks/toolchains/protoc-3.2.0/bin/protoc -I ../balto-service/api --go_out=api ../balto-service/api/balto.proto
/Users/tylrtrmbl/thenewtricks/toolchains/go-1.8/bin/go build -o baltodash
./baltodash
make: ./baltodash: Cannot allocate memory
make: *** [run] Error 1

$ strip ./baltodash

$ make run
./baltodash
Welcome to Balto Dash!

go version:

go version go1.8.1 darwin/amd64

go env:

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/tylrtrmbl/projects"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/Users/tylrtrmbl/thenewtricks/toolchains/go-1.8.1"
GOTOOLDIR="/Users/tylrtrmbl/thenewtricks/toolchains/go-1.8.1/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/6n/fb27834j7wg9vvtc9nv5_2h80000gn/T/go-build422681697=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

Other Notes

I had this problem with a very similar project with go 1.8, and switching to go 1.8.1 did fix that project. However, the problem obviously still manifests for this project.

[ALTree]

@tylrtrmbl are you absolutely sure that you nuked everything you had and rebuild it with go1.8.1? If yes, please open a new issue with details (a way to reproduce would be great, if you are allowed to share the code).

[taylortrimble]

Silly me. Spent an extra hour tracking it down this morning, and finally just moved my go 1.8 binary to the trash to prove it was using 1.8.1... it wasn't.

Now I found the problem.

Sorry for the noise.

[ALTree]

No problem, thanks for checking.