Re: [GENERAL] memory

Bruce,

As suggested, I wrote the following program (test.c):

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#include <stdlib.h>

main()
{
int allocated = 0;
int mb = 1024 * 1024;

while (malloc(mb) != NULL) {
allocated ++;
printf ("%d MB allocated\n", allocated);
}
}
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$ limits
coredumpsize unlimited
cputime unlimited
datasize 131072 kbytes
filesize unlimited
maxproc 256
memorylocked 85380 kbytes
memoryuse 256136 kbytes
openfiles 128
stacksize 2048 kbytes

$ make test
cc -O2 test.c -o test
$ ./test
1 MB allocated
2 MB allocated
3 MB allocated
4 MB allocated
5 MB allocated
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$ unlimit
$ limit
coredumpsize unlimited
cputime unlimited
datasize 262144 kbytes
filesize unlimited
maxproc 4116
memorylocked 256140 kbytes
memoryuse 256136 kbytes
openfiles 13196
stacksize 262144 kbytes
$ ./test
[...]
250 MB allocated
251 MB allocated
252 MB allocated
253 MB allocated
254 MB allocated

I guess this says malloc on BSD/OS works as expected (I will be extremely
surprised if it does not).

Daniel

>>>Bruce Momjian said:
> > > I have run BSDI for years and never saw this problem. Not sure on a
> > > cause, though.
> >
> > Bruce,
> >
> > I too run BSD/OS for years and on all BSD/OS versions since 2.1 and Postgr
es
> > since 6.0 (earlier postrges releases didn't have much load here) observe t
he
> > same problem:
>
> [Redirected to ports list].
>
> OK, let me suggest something. Just write a program and see how much
> memory you can malloc(). THe sbrk call is for heap memory, so see how
> many 1mb chunks you can malloc before it fails.
>
> The error sbrk() is not related to shared memory or semaphores. THe
> 6.5.* code gets all shared memory and semaphores on startup, so if it
> starts, it has done all that already.
>
> --
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