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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Eric Whiting <ewhiting@amis.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: large mem, heavy paging issues (256M VmStk on Athlon)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:38:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0102232136210.8568-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A96C430.C028E954@amis.com>

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Eric Whiting wrote:

> Thanks for the info -- but I'm not sure I understand what the fix is
> to be. Does my lisp engine need to be recompiled with a newer glibc?
> Do I need to change something else?

If your lisp engine is dynamically linked to glibc, a simple
glibc upgrade should do the trick (if this thing is fixed in
newer glibcs).

> I think the strace showed the process is using mainly malloc (mmap)
> for memory allocation. I do see some brk() calls at the first. (these
> appear to be returning a 2G number not a 1G number like you suggested)

> brk(0x805a000)                          = 0x805a000

Actually, this would be 0x0805a000 if you wrote out the leading
0 ... this is more like 128 MB ;)

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-24  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-21  0:39 Eric Whiting
2001-02-21 22:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-23 20:12   ` Eric Whiting
2001-02-24  2:38     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-02-24  3:15       ` Eric Whiting

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