Thanks Rick!,

I am going to add your changes and I am sure it shall get thoroughly 
tested since I am using this so much.

I'll report back later. 

Cheers,
Will


Rick Strong wrote:


>I fixed a similar problem with the following diff:
>
>diff --git a/src/mem/physical.cc b/src/mem/physical.cc
>--- a/src/mem/physical.cc
>+++ b/src/mem/physical.cc
>@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@
> void
> PhysicalMemory::serialize(ostream &os)
> {
>+    const int chunkSize = 16384;
>     if (!pmemAddr)
>         return;
> 
>@@ -496,12 +497,20 @@
>     if (compressedMem == NULL)
>         fatal("Insufficient memory to allocate compression state for 
%s\n",
>                 filename);
>-
>-    if (gzwrite(compressedMem, pmemAddr, params()->range.size()) !=
>-        params()->range.size()) {
>+   
>+    /*if (written_size != params()->range.size()) {
>         fatal("Write failed on physical memory checkpoint file '%s'\n",
>               filename);
>-    }
>+    }*/
>+   
>+    uint64_t curSize = 0;
>+    do {
>+        unsigned int written_size = (unsigned 
>int)gzwrite(compressedMem, pmemAddr + curSize, chunkSize);
>+        if (written_size <= 0) {
>+            fatal("Write failed on physical memory checkpoint file 
>'%s'\n",filename);
>+        }
>+        curSize += written_size;
>+    } while (curSize < params()->range.size());
> 
>     if (gzclose(compressedMem))
>         fatal("Close failed on physical memory checkpoint file '%s'\n",
>
>William George Beazley Jr wrote:
>> Seems large than physical memory larger 1536MB suffers from:
>>
>> Writing checkpoint
>> fatal: Write failed on physical memory checkpoint file 
>> 'system.physmem.physmem'
>>  @ cycle 500
>> [serialize:build/ALPHA_SE/mem/physical.cc, line 479]
>> Memory Usage: 5395972 KBytes
>>
>> I should think this machine is large enough to support it:
>> [willi...@trout ~]$ free
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     
>> cached
>> Mem:      66013472   17933008   48080464          0     284200   
>> 14918872
>> -/+ buffers/cache:    2729936   63283536
>> Swap:     78148152          0   78148152
>> [willi...@trout ~]$ 
>>
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