Hi. Im hoping someone on here can help me out. I posted something
similar to this back in June 2000 when I was on the 2.2.X line and
was waiting to see if the 2.4 kernel would provide a fix.
Essentially, the problem can be summarized to be that on a machine
with ample ram (2G, 4G, etc), I am unable to malloc a gig if I ask
for the memory in small ( <= 128k) chunks. I've enclosed some results
and a little program which was put together to demonstrate the problems
we're having. All of the failures seem to occur around 930MB.
I'm more than happy to try any tunings, patches, etc and my
time is at your disposal.
Thanks,
Karl
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Karl Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr Systems Architect 617 577 7999 xt 251
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
--Voltaire
The fields are:
Iteration, Addr of ptr, Addr stored by ptr, alloc'd mem
size: 4096
#228852 (401F07D8) (3FFFC948) allocated 937381888 bytes total.
#228853 (401F07DC) (3FFFD950) allocated 937385984 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 8192
#114536 (40180DA8) (3FFF94E8) allocated 938287104 bytes total.
#114537 (40180DAC) (3FFFB4F0) allocated 938295296 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 16384
#57294 (40148F40) (3FFF1818) allocated 938721280 bytes total.
#57295 (40148F44) (3FFF5820) allocated 938737664 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 32768
#28653 (4012CFBC) (3FFE9910) allocated 938934272 bytes total.
#28654 (4012CFC0) (3FFF1918) allocated 938967040 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 65536
#14325 (805797C) (3FFC5958) allocated 938868736 bytes total.
#14326 (8057980) (3FFD5960) allocated 938934272 bytes total.
#14327 (8057984) (3FFE5968) allocated 938999808 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 131072
#8186 (8051990) (3FF9F980) allocated 1073086464 bytes total.
#8187 (8051994) (3FFBF988) allocated 1073217536 bytes total.
malloc error Cannot allocate memory
size: 262144
#4094 (804D9A0) (37FD39A0) allocated 1073479680 bytes total.
#4095 (804D9A4) (380139A8) allocated 1073741824 bytes total.
success
#include<stdio.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<errno.h>
unsigned int i,num,bites,total,delay=0;
char **memhog;
int main(int argc,char *argv[]){
if(argc!=4){
fprintf(stderr,"usage: %s [# of chunks] [bytes per chunk] [delay in
sec]\n",argv[0]);
return(1);
}
num=atoi(argv[1]);
bites=atoi(argv[2]);
delay=atoi(argv[3]);
memhog=malloc(sizeof(char*) * num);
if(!memhog){
fprintf(stderr,"malloc error %s\n",strerror(errno));
exit(1);
}
for(i=0;i<num;i++){
*memhog=malloc(bites);
if(!*memhog){
fprintf(stderr,"malloc error %s\n",strerror(errno));
exit(1);
}
total+=bites;
printf("#%u (%X) (%X) allocated %u bytes total.\n",i,memhog,*memhog,total);
memhog++;
sleep(delay);
}
return(0);
}
