Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-08-09 Thread Ingo Strüwing
Hi Mattijs, Am Montag, den 08.08.2005, 14:56 +0200 schrieb Matthijs van der Klip: ... > Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels have a setting for their overcommitment > behaviour under /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory. The different settings > are: ... > For now I've set this to '2' which means the kernel won'

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-08-08 Thread Matthijs van der Klip
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Joerg Bruehe wrote: > As a result, the allocation succeeds, but some process gets killed when > the paging space cannot take such an additional page. To the affected > process, this looks like a crash. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels have a setting for their overcommitment behavio

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-08-01 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Matthijs! Matthijs van der Klip wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Joerg Bruehe wrote: Now the only question that remains is why the Active memory goes close to zero when exiting fillmem and is not when ending a compile run. I asked Again IMHO, it shows an error in memory management. I do n

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-08-01 Thread Matthijs van der Klip
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Joerg Bruehe wrote: > > Now the only question that remains is why the Active memory goes close to > > zero when exiting fillmem and is not when ending a compile run. I asked > > Again IMHO, it shows an error in memory management. I do not know if it's an error or not. I do

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-07-29 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Matthijs, thank you for your detailed description: Matthijs van der Klip wrote: [[...]] I'd like to start with the following: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/12/msg00410.html This implies I'm not the only one strugling with 'Active' memory on a 2.6 kernel. Interesting detail: th

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-07-29 Thread Matthijs van der Klip
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jigal van Hemert wrote: > I do not know exactly which speedup optimizations might be taken in > Fedora Core 4 (as mentioned in your first posting) in general, or in a > 64 bit version specifically, so I am speculating: > > A running MySQL server as configured by you, with 7 GB

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-07-27 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Jigal, all; Jigal van Hemert wrote: Hi Joerg, From: "Joerg Bruehe" Jigal van Hemert wrote: 050726 14:13:12 mysqld started 050726 14:13:12 InnoDB: Error: cannot allocate 7340048384 bytes of InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory InnoDB: by InnoDB 78086952 bytes. Operating s

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-07-26 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi Joerg, From: "Joerg Bruehe" > Jigal van Hemert wrote: > > 050726 14:13:12 mysqld started > > 050726 14:13:12 InnoDB: Error: cannot allocate 7340048384 bytes of > > InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory > > InnoDB: by InnoDB 78086952 bytes. Operating system errno: 12 > On my machi

Re: malloc troubles on 64-bit machine

2005-07-26 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Jigal! Jigal van Hemert wrote: [[...]] After a while he needed to restart MySQL (made some changes somewhere) and it refused to do so: 050726 14:13:12 mysqld started 050726 14:13:12 InnoDB: Error: cannot allocate 7340048384 bytes of InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory InnoDB