Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/30/21:18:41
From: Krzysztof Duleba <krzysan at skrzynka dot pl>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:23:20 +0100
Subject: Re: malloc/new allocate twice as much?
References: <001e01c60d96$82fc34e0$43055f12 AT somerville>
>>This is an issue I've discovered and reproduced while trying to compile
>>polymake (see the thread "gcc crash (memory?)"). It seems that both malloc
>>and new allocate take up twice the amount of memory needed.
>>I wrote a short program to allocate and use memory in chunks
(mem-test.cpp),
>>and compiled it with g++ 3.4.4. I monitored it using the Windows Task
>>Manager. When asked to allocate 100MB in increments of 10MB, the process
>>size goes to 100MB and then drops to 0, as expected. However, the total
>>commit charge for the machine goes up by 200MB, and then drops back!
>Try the snapshot. On my laptop with XP SP2, 20051222 snapshot, 1GB RAM
>and 1GB swap file I had no problem allocating 1.8 GB.
Yes! This solved the malloc/new problem. Thanks. I sure hope the next
release of the cygwin dll will not reintroduce this bug... ;)
Now, I am also able to compile polymake, which required g++ to consume up to
600MB of RAM and caused it to crash when I was using the old dll with the
buggy malloc/new.
Dan
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