In <38BE7428.DA36110E@lrz-muenchen.de> Herbert Huber (Herbert.Huber@lrz-muenchen.de) wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running SuSE 6.3, using a kernel 2.2.13 with "CONFIG_2GB" set to "y"
> on my dual PIII box. Trying to start binaries which allocate more memory
> than 554 MByte, I get an segmentation fault. For example the strace
> output of the stream benchmark with parameter n set to 24220000 looks
> like:
> execve("./stream_linux", ["./stream_linux"], [/* 66 vars */]) = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> My linux box however has 1 GByte memory installed, which is reported
> correctly by utilities like top etc...
> 2:59pm up 5:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
> 64 processes: 62 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
> CPU states: 0.1% user, 2.2% system, 0.0% nice, 97.5% idle
> Mem: 1036336K av, 180660K used, 855676K free, 21864K shrd, 20968K
> buff
> Swap: 1052216K av, 528K used, 1051688K free 60528K
> cached
> Any regards are welcomed
Plese read lklm archive. It was discussed already. You can not allocate
more then 940MiB with brk. And glibc's malloc does not use mmap for small
allocations.
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