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Figure out the cause of the 'out of memory' error observed in P12 / T33
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Description

According to the debug.log (P12), the bitcoind process terminated due to a failed memory allocation during a test with sequentially increasing block sizes. (it failed at 135MB).

A large block regression test which can reproduce this will be added, and the cause of the memory allocation failure needs to be investigated. The test was conducted on a machine with ample real, free memory, so it seems to be a case of the process exhausting some software limits.

ulimits in effect during the test:

core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 257504
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 257504
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited                                                                                                                                                 
file locks                      (-x) unlimited