Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:41:30 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mmap.2 Message-ID: <863bh6q2t1.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <442475D1.5010903@FreeBSD.org> (Jason Evans's message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:42:25 -0800") References: <200603232337.k2NNb6tH020675@repoman.freebsd.org> <86irq45etp.fsf@xps.des.no> <442444C4.8020404@elischer.org> <86k6ajpmvb.fsf@xps.des.no> <442475D1.5010903@FreeBSD.org>
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Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> By choosing a malloc size of 1MB in your test program, you just
> happened to pick the worst possible case for malloc chunk
> fragmentation (50% utilization). In reality, the reason that you
> hit a limit of 697 on i386 is that you used pretty much the entire
> mmap()able address space (2*697MB =3D=3D 1394MB). On i386, jemalloc
> switches from sbrk() to mmap() when heap space runs out.
How about this, then, with malloc(1024):
% ulimit -d
2097152
% ./allocate
2861145 kB
% ulimit -d $((1024*1024))
% ./allocate
1861209 kB
% ulimit -d $((512*1024))
% ./allocate
1361241 kB
In all cases, it should stop when it reaches dsiz.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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/*
* cc -Wall -pedantic -std=c99 -O2 -pipe -o allocate allocate.c
*/
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
static volatile sig_atomic_t sig_caught;
static void
sig_handler(int sig)
{
sig_caught = sig;
}
int
main(void)
{
int i = 0;
signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
while (!sig_caught && malloc(1024) != NULL) {
if (++i % 128 == 0)
printf("\r%d MB", i / 1024);
fflush(stdout);
}
printf("\r%d kB\n", i);
if (sig_caught)
printf("interrupted\n");
exit(0);
}
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