Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/08/07/07:51:40
On Aug 7 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 5 19:16, Ken Brown wrote:
> > Starting with the 2011-07-21 snapshot, emacs doesn't work well with
> > the large-address-awareness flag set (under 64-bit Win7). As soon
> > as emacs is started, a *Warning* buffer is created with the
> > following message:
> >
> > Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit
> >
> > To reproduce, install emacs and do the following:
> >
> > $ peflags --bigaddr=1 /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe
> >
> > $ emacs-nox.exe -Q
>
> Yes, I can reproduce the message, but I have not the faintest idea
> why emacs thinks so. If you look into the process map, you'll
> see the following:
>
> $ ps | grep emacs
> 280 2852 280 2796 0 11001 13:02:21 /usr/bin/emacs-nox
> $ less /proc/280/maps
> [...]
> 80000000-8064E000 rw-p 00000000 0000:0000 0 [heap]
> 8064E000-98000000 ===p 0064E000 0000:0000 0 [heap]
>
> Starting with the 2011-07-21 the heap starts at 0x80000000 if the
> application (and the system) is large address aware. Even if you
> dont see the "[heap]" decoration(*), the heap is at that address.
> What you can see is this:
>
> - The heap is located at 0x80000000 and has a size of 384 Megs (the
> default start size), up to address 0x98000000.
>
> - Only the first 0x64e000 (== 6610944) bytes are allocated so far, so
> there are still about 254 Megs left on the heap.
I forgot to explain. The first line
80000000-8064E000 rw-p 00000000 0000:0000 0
means that the address area from 80000000 to 8064E000 is commited R/W
memory. That's the space for which the application has called sbrk().
In the second line
8064E000-98000000 ===p 0064E000 0000:0000 0
the "===p" means that the area is reserved, but uncommited. That's the
remainder of the current heap, not sbrk'd yet.
Even if that space would have been taken by emacs, the next sbrk would
have enough space left, since ther space *after* the current heap is
not reserverd yet, up to some address in the 0xfff00000 space, so there's
about 1.7 Gigs left to extend the heap.
> I did set breakpoints to all functions returning malloc information,
> but emacs doesn't call one of them. Is there a chance that emacs
> does some invalid 32 bit pointer arithmetic and just gets confused?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> (*) I just checked in a patch to Cygwin which fixes printing the
> "[heap]" text in the right column. In your case there's a good
> chance that it's missing.
Corinna
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