From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: saraniti@ece.iit.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: weird calloc problem
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:47:40 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903171547.PAA00908@dax.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903100151.TAA00665@neumann.ece.iit.edu>
Hi,
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:51:32 -0600 (EST), marco saraniti
<saraniti@neumann.ece.iit.edu> said:
> I'm having a calloc problem that made me waste three weeks, at this point
> I'm out of options, and I was wondering if this can be a kernel- or
> MM-related problem. Furthermore, the system is a relatively big machine and
> I'd like to share my experience with other people who are interested in
> using Linux for number crunching.
> The problem is trivial: calloc returns a NULL, even if there is a lot
> of free memory. Yes, both arguments of calloc are always > 0.
Do you have any evidence that this is a kernel problem as opposed to a
user-space problem? A "ps -m" listing of the process concerned when
the fault happens would be useful in pinning this down, as would a
"strace" output.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-17 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-10 1:51 marco saraniti
1999-03-17 15:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-03-17 23:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
1999-03-18 13:00 ` Manfred Spraul
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