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Re: reserved range exhausted?

On Sunday, Aug 31, 2003, at 11:13 US/Pacific, Alice Hartley wrote:

Aug 28 13:15:38 Jungle WindowServer[180]: Reserved range exhausted.
(0xbbf05000 to 0xbc1fd000 goes out of bounds)
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I can't reproduce it.
What does the message mean? Nothing bad happens.

This message is quite common, and harmless. If you Google for it youll see a lot of people asking the same question. I thought I had a message with the details, but I cant find it just now. IIRC, its something like: the Window Server reserves a range of VM addresses in every process for allocating window buffers, so that the addresses can map directly to the same range of physical addresses. If you open enough windows, it exhausts this range and must start allocating in the regular address range in each process, which is possibly slower. Or something like that.

If anything, it might mean the size of the reserved address range might need to be increased if lots of users are exhausting it in normal use. In any case, it is not indicative of any error, and I believe the message was removed in some later version of Mac OS X (perhaps one that hasnt been released yet?).

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