From: brian@worldcontrol.com
To: "Gabriel.Leen" <Gabriel.Leen@ul.ie>
Cc: "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ?????????
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:56:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010920125616.A14985@top.worldcontrol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D2F375D116BD111844C00609763076E050D164D@exch-staff1.ul.ie>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:25:37PM +0100, Gabriel.Leen wrote:
> Hello,
> The problem in a nutshell is:
>
> a) I have a 4GB ram 1.7Gh Xeon box
> b) I'm running a process which requires around 3GB of ram
> c) RedHat 2.4.9 will only give it 890MB, then core dumps with the warning
> "segmentation fault"
> when it reaches this memory usage and "asks for more"
That is exacly what I've seen.
The limit I ran into was in glibc. My code used malloc, and apparently
some versions of malloc in glibc try "harder" than others to allocate
memory. Check your version of glibc and try a later one if available.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-20 19:25 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-20 19:56 ` brian [this message]
2001-09-20 20:36 ` Thierry Vignaud
2001-09-20 20:56 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-21 8:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-21 16:07 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-22 2:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 21:15 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-24 22:16 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-24 22:41 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-24 21:16 ` Joseph A Knapka
2001-09-25 10:59 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-09-25 17:36 ` afei
2001-09-26 7:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-26 8:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] <5D2F375D116BD111844C00609763076E050D1681@exch-staff1.ul.ie>
2001-09-24 22:49 ` Rik van Riel
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