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Re: libauto: what's "agc error: Can not allocate new region"
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Re: libauto: what's "agc error: Can not allocate new region"


  • Subject: Re: libauto: what's "agc error: Can not allocate new region"
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:01:16 -0500
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On 12/2/09 12:33 PM, Jens Alfke said:

>> I'm stress testing a 64 bit GC app with AUTO_USE_GUARDS and left it
>> running overnight.  This morning it's crashed here:
>
>Doesn't that turn on GuardMalloc, which adds an extra unmapped page
>before and after every allocation? In other words, there's an extra 8k
>of address space used up by every single malloc call. This isn't going
>to show up as RAM used by the process, because it's not mapped to
>anything, but it certainly chews up address space in a hurry.

Thanks to all for your replies.

If GC memory is really limited to 8 GB (and not 32), then I probably am
hitting that limit with the guard pages on.  :(  Is there a way to
increase that limit, at least in debug?  8 is pretty puny. :(

And Jens, AUTO_USE_GUARDS is the same principle as Guard Malloc, but
they are not identical.  As I understand it, the former applies to
memory in the GC zone, the latter to the malloc zone.  In my app anyway,
AUTO_USE_GUARDS is slow, GuardMalloc is slower, and with them both on
it's very slow indeed.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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