Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010713102530.0164f998@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:27:03 -0400 To: Thorsten Clevorn , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: problem with heap, win32 error 487 In-Reply-To: <3B4EE723.16CBA862@agere.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thorsten, How is this message different in content and substance from the one you sent yesterday? This list really doesn't need to see allot of repeated email messages... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 08:18 AM 7/13/2001, Thorsten Clevorn wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to run a simulation in C on my Win2K-machine (the simulation > >runs perfectly on a Linux-PC) >The problem seems to be with the memory rquirements. >With certain parameters, I get some huge >3-dimensional arrays that require like 20-40MB RAM. >When I have a size of about 22MB the simulation works fine, when I >increase the array size by a factor of ~1.33 (should then still be below > >but close to 32MB) it doesn't start with the error message >C:\cygwin\home\clevorn\wlan15\Main.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for >cygwin's heap (0x20030000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487 > >I tried two solutions posted in the mailing list for similiar problems: > >first: >the "gcc -Wl,--heap,50000000,--stack,--50000000 ..." solution >here the simulation fails at small array sizes too. > >second: >the "gcc -mno-cygwin ..." solution >here the program does start, but the only thing that happens is, if you >look in the task manager, the process slowly "collects" memory for about > >90 seconds until it recaches 32MB (33xxxkB) and than the process crashes > >with the windows message " the exception unknown software exception >(0xc00000fd) occured in the application at location 0x6104b9ef". During >that time the VM Size increases with the same rate, only it start at >values like 4xxMB or 6xxMB, depending on the array size (I have 1 GB RAM > >so the pure size of these value isn't the real problem). > >I think that the size of slightly below or even above 32MB is the cause >of the problem. Is there a general problem with cygwin and running >programs that require this amount of memory. Is there a way around this >problem. > >Thanks for your help! > >Regards, > >Thorsten > >$ cygcheck -s -v -r > >Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics >Current System Time: Thu Jul 12 15:56:20 2001 > >WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 1, RC 1.1 > >Path: /usr/local/bin > /usr/bin > /bin > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32 > /cygdrive/c/WINNT > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Dazel/Output Envoy/bin > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual >Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual >Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/bin > >SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 >WinDir: C:\WINNT > >PWD = `/home/clevorn/wlan15' >USER = `Administrator' >MAKE_MODE = `unix' >HOME = `/home/Administrator' > >NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `2' >PROMPT = `$P$G' >LOGONSERVER = `\\PAI820ADDCAG01' >OS2LIBPATH = `C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;' >COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' >!C: = `C:\cygwin\bin' >SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:' >HOSTNAME = `NJ9620TCLEVORN2' >INCLUDE = `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\VC98\include' >PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0806' >MSDEVDIR = `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98' >PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' >COMPUTERNAME = `NJ9620TCLEVORN2' >WINDIR = `C:\WINNT' >USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\clevorn.AGS' >PS1 = `\[\033]0;\w\007 >\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] >$ ' >PROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files' >!:: = `::\' >MACHTYPE = `i686-pc-cygwin' >PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel' >OS = `Windows_NT' >OLDPWD = `/home/Administrator' >PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86' >TEMP = `/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/clevorn.AGS/LOCALS~1/Temp' >PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `6' >SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINNT' >HOMEDRIVE = `C:' >LIB = `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;C:\Program >Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib' >ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' >SHLVL = `1' >APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\clevorn.AGS\Application Data' >COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files' >HOMEPATH = `\' >USERDOMAIN = `AGS' >USERNAME = `clevorn' >SHELL = `/bin/bash' >HOSTTYPE = `i686' >OSTYPE = `cygwin' >TERM = `cygwin' >SMS_LOCAL_DIR = `C:\WINNT' >_ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck' >TZ = `EST5EDT4,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' > >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > (default) = `/cygdrive' > cygdrive flags = 0x00000022 >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ > (default) = `C:/cygwin' > flags = 0x00000002 >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin > (default) = `C:/cygwin/bin' > flags = 0x00000002 >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib > (default) = `C:/cygwin/lib' > flags = 0x00000002 >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start > >Menu\Programs\Cygnus Solutions > (default) = (unsupported type) >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options > >a: fd N/A N/A >c: hd NTFS 17351Mb 36% CP CS UN PA FC >d: cd N/A N/A > >C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin user binmode >C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib user binmode >C:\cygwin / user binmode >c: /cygdrive/c user binmode,noumount > >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe > > 56k 2000/12/03 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygbz21.0.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/20 18:53 > 45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygform5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:28 > 18k 2000/10/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cyggdbm.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 22:26 > 17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34 > 21k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cyghistory5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/27 22:27 > 21k 2001/06/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygintl.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/20 13:09 > 81k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygitcl30.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 > 35k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygitk30.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 > 45k 2001/07/04 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygjbig1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/7/3 23:25 > 119k 2001/06/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygjpeg6b.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/6 0:27 > 26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygmenu5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27 > 156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 >sys=4.0 > "cygncurses++5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:29 > 226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cygncurses5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:17 > 15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygpanel5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27 > 163k 2001/05/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygpng2.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/5/6 0:05 > 108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 >sys=4.0 > "cygreadline4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34 > 135k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 >sys=4.0 > "cygreadline5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/27 22:27 > 390k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygtcl80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:39 > 5k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > 10k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cygtclreg80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:39 > 245k 2001/06/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygtiff3.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/12 13:25 > 623k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygtk80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 > 41k 2001/07/04 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cygXpm-noX4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/7/3 21:21 > 45k 2001/07/04 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygXpm-X4.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/19 21:45 > 49k 2001/02/03 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/2/3 15:35 > 678k 2001/05/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/5/20 23:28 > Cygwin DLL version info: > dll major: 1003 > dll minor: 2 > dll epoch: 19 > dll bad signal mask: 19005 > dll old termios: 5 > dll malloc env: 28 > api major: 0 > api minor: 39 > shared data: 3 > dll identifier: cygwin1 > mount registry: 2 > cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions > cygwin registry name: Cygwin > program options name: Program Options > cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 > cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags > cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix > cygdrive default prefix: > build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001 > shared id: cygwin1S3 > >-- >---------------------------------------------------------- >Thorsten Clevorn mailto:clevorn@agere.com >---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/