Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/03/18/10:56:34
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> > >On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using:
>> > >> regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1792
>> > >
>> > > I run with this setting all the time, I guess that's why I haven't seen this
>> > >problem. Before I did that (couple of years back) I also used to get crashes
>> > >building libjava.
>> >
>> > That setting should have nothing to do with cmalloc(). cmalloc is for
>> > Cygwin's internal heap which has nothing to do with that setting.
>> >
>> > Didn't Corinna already mention this?
>>
>> In this case the bigger heap seems to avoid the aggressive use of small
>> mmap chunks which in turn disallows to raise the cygheap size. Without
>> analyzing the whole situation there's not much else to say or do. This
>> is YA case which screams loudly for a testcase...
>
>I created an extensive testcase(*) and it turned out that the current
>algorithm to allocate memory on the cygheap is wasting a lot of memory.
>Actually it organizes the memory in buckets, each of which cares for a
>specific size as a power of 2. So memory on the cygheap is always
>allocated in chunks of 4 byte, 8 byte, 16 byte, 32 byte, etc. Plus,
>every chunk needs extra 8 byte for bookkeeping.
Right. That's a fairly classic implementation of malloc which was, in
this case, implemented by DJ Delorie. I chose that from a few other
implementations because it was, at the time, supposed to be the best
tradeoff between speed and memory usage. But, back when I implemented
the cygheap it wasn't used as much as it is now, which I guess is
fairly obvious.
cgf
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