Carlo Sogono wrote:
> Does RHEL or Linux in general limit the amount of memory being used by a
> single process?
All linux systems limit the amount to memory to be less than
the totla virtual memory of the system :-).
> In the first maybe 5 million mallocs it can do
> about 100,000 mallocs per second, however after more than 1 GB worth it
> slows down to just a few thousand per second.
How much virtual and real memory do you actually have?
Are these mallocs being freed or do you just keep on mallocing?
> Is there something I can do on Linux or RHEL, or maybe something else I
> should do in my coding?
Before doing anything you really need to figure out what the
problem is :-).
> Some stats...
You might also want to try the dstat program as recommended to me
by Martin Vissier (sp?):
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/
Cheers,
Erik
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