Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-10 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > 3) ask kernel developers to get rid of this "brk hits the fixed start > address of mmapped areas" or the other way around complaints "mmapped > area should start at lower address" limitation. E.g. Solaris does > growing up heap, growing down mmap a

Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-09 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > Wayne, the patch below should fix your barrier problem [1 GB physical > memory configuration]. First, I just wanted to thank you and everyone else (Linus, Andrea, Dan Maas, Rik and others) who has responded to my emails. You guys are wonderful!

Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Maas wrote: > OK it's fairly obvious what's happening here. Your program is using > its own allocator, which relies solely on brk() to obtain more > memory. [... good explanation here ...] > Here's your short answer: ask the authors of your program to either > 1) replace

Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-09 Thread Dan Maas
> 08048000-08b5c000 r-xp 03:05 1130923 /tmp/newmagma/magma.exe.dyn > 08b5c000-08cc9000 rw-p 00b13000 03:05 1130923 /tmp/newmagma/magma.exe.dyn > 08cc9000-0bd0 rwxp 00:00 0 > Now, subsequent to each memory allocation, only the second number in the > third line changes. It be

Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-08 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:22:44PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: > I guess I conclude that either (1) MAGMA does not use libc's malloc > (checking on this, I doubt it) I'm still a bit unclear on this one. I now have two executables, magma.exe and magma.exe.dyn (ignore the .exe). magma.exe is st