From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:38:11 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: large mem, heavy paging issues (256M VmStk on Athlon) In-Reply-To: <3A96C430.C028E954@amis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Eric Whiting Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/