Re: large mem, heavy paging issues (256M VmStk on Athlon)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Eric Whiting wrote:

> Thanks for the info -- but I'm not sure I understand what the fix is
> to be. Does my lisp engine need to be recompiled with a newer glibc?
> Do I need to change something else?

If your lisp engine is dynamically linked to glibc, a simple
glibc upgrade should do the trick (if this thing is fixed in
newer glibcs).

> I think the strace showed the process is using mainly malloc (mmap)
> for memory allocation. I do see some brk() calls at the first. (these
> appear to be returning a 2G number not a 1G number like you suggested)

> brk(0x805a000)                          = 0x805a000

Actually, this would be 0x0805a000 if you wrote out the leading
0 ... this is more like 128 MB ;)

regards,

Rik
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