Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Krzysztof Duleba Subject: Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:35:02 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <42E76865.4000301@familiehaase.de> <42E7B413.8040203@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: >>I've simplified the test case. It seems that Cygwin perl can't handle >>too much memory. For instance: >> >>$ perl -e '$a="a"x(200 * 1024 * 1024); sleep 9' >>$ perl -e '$a="a"x(1024 * 1024);my %b; $b{$_}=$a for(1..400);sleep 9' >>$ perl -e '$a="a"x(50 * 1024 * 1024);$b=$a;$c=$a;$d=$a;$e=$a;sleep 10' > > Yeah. Set heap_chunk_in_mb to include all available memory, and I'm sure > you'll find that Cygwin perl works the same too. After setting heap_chunk_in_mb to 2048, all those tests passed. Thanks! But I still don't understand why C isn't bound by heap_chunk_in_mb and perl is. Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/