From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
To: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlc.opt tries to allocate 34 GB of RAM ... and fails
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48220316.7070000@janestcapital.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8560b80805071224v84b3a46ka9fa42071f0d9dd0@mail.gmail.com>
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Markus Mottl wrote:
>On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
>
>> OK, but is there any case where ocamlc.opt should try to allocate
>> 34 _gigabytes_ (in the 2nd [length] param of mmap(2)).
>>
>>
>
>Hm, this seems overly excessive. I haven't been able to reproduce the
>problem on our Fedora 5 boxes (32 and 64bit) using any (including
>older) OCaml-compiler.
>
>Regards,
>Markus
>
>
>
This is possible- if the ocaml heap was spread out over 2^48 bytes, then
the old implementation would want to allocate 32G or more. I'd be
surprised, but this is possible...
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 17:01 Richard Jones
2008-05-07 17:35 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Beauxis
2008-05-07 18:34 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-07 18:46 ` Markus Mottl
2008-05-07 18:49 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-07 19:24 ` Markus Mottl
2008-05-07 19:29 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2008-05-08 9:14 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-08 10:14 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-08 13:40 ` Markus Mottl
2008-05-08 13:55 ` Richard Jones
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