Re: [Caml-list] OCaml runtime using too much memory in 64-bit Linux

[Romain Beauxis <romain.beauxis@gmail.com>]

Le Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:28:49 Adam Chlipala, vous avez écrit :
> A program that should be using just a few megabytes of RAM ends up using
> 200+ MB to store a page table.  It seems that a C macro is defined by
> default on 64-bit Linux to use mmap() instead of malloc().  Ironically,
> a comment says that this was done to avoid being given blocks of memory
> that are very far apart from each other, forcing the creation of overly
> large page tables.  It's ironic because that is exactly the problem that
> is showing up now with mmap().  It ends up called twice for the program
> I'm looking at, and the two addresses it returns are far enough apart to
> lead to creation of a 200 MB page table.


Unfortunatly, you can't compile without that option 
on amd64 archs, you'll get this error:
 
> boot/ocamlrun boot/ocamlc -nostdlib -I boot  -linkall -o ocaml.tmp toplevel/toplevellib.cma toplevel/topstart.cmo
>Fatal error: exception Out_of_memory


Romain