On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:44:56 PM UTC+5:30, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
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> On 07/01/2014 09:44 AM, Ashish wrote:
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> > I am using libuv in console based application being developed on
> > Windows XP When my applications memory usage goes high, at certain
> > point (at around 2GB) uv_queue_work crashes with "runtime error"
> > and sometimes with "R6016- not enough space for thread data"
> >
> >
> > This little piece of code demonstrates the same. The code below
> > tries to create 321 threads. (I am using 321 number for demo
> > purpose but in original code the number is just 31) 321 is not high
> > number of threads on Windows XP. Still why would it crash:
> >
> >
> > void work_in_thread(uv_work_t* work_t) { // Allocate some memory
> > char* memory = new (std::nothrow) char[4321];
> >
> > // Simulate some delay Sleep(3); }
> >
> > void after_work_in_thread(uv_work_t* work_t, int status) { //
> > Recreate just ended thread (to maintain thread count) int RetVal =
> > uv_queue_work(loop, work_t, work_in_thread, after_work_in_thread);
> > if (RetVal != 0) printf("\nERROR recreating thread"); }
> >
> > int main() { loop = uv_default_loop();
> >
> > // Create working threads for (int i=0; i<321; i++) { uv_work_t*
> > work_t; work_t = (uv_work_t*) malloc(sizeof(uv_work_t)); int RetVal
> > = uv_queue_work(loop, work_t, work_in_thread,
> > after_work_in_thread); if (RetVal != 0) printf("\nERROR creating
> > thread"); }
> >
> > uv_run(loop, UV_RUN_DEFAULT);
> >
> > printf ("\nCame out of loop...");
> >
> > return 0; }
> >
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> uv_queue_work doesn't do what you think it does. It does not create a
> new thread each time you call it, it calls the given function on the
> internal threadpool, which has size 4.
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> On top of that, you are reusing the uv_work_t request in the
> after_work_cb, and I think there was a bug in there. Can you try this
> patch? https://gist.github.com/saghul/62da49b306618db381c7 (make sure
> you are using latest master)
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> - --
> Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
> bettercallsaghul.com
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Hi,
yes I am aware it is threadpool of size 4 but so far till now it works
perfectly as per my expectation
(except this crash at 2GB).
work_t once allocated remains same otherwise it would have crashed much
earlier.
However I'll try the patch and will let you know.
Many thanks,
Ashish
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