Re: 2.6.9, 64bit, 4GB memory => panics ...

[Rudolf Usselmann <rudi@asics.ws>]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:20, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
> 
> > int mem[10000];
> > int i, n;
> >
> > for(i=0;i<2000;i++) {
> > 	printf("Doing alloc %0d ...\n",i);
> > 	mem[i] = (int)malloc(1024*1024*1024);
> 
> allocate a 1 gig block, but store it in an int array?  That's wrong.
> 
> > 	if(mem[i] == NULL)
> > 		printf("Malloc failed ...\n");
> > 	else
> > 		for(n=0;n<(1024*1024*1024);n=n+640)	mem[i] = n;
> 
> You alter n, but then always only set mem[i], without varying i.
> 
> Your program is buggy, and memleaks.
> 
> Plus, the kernel uses overcommit by default, and since you aren't actually
> touching the memory you are allocating, you are only limited by the address
> space size allowed per process(depends on how you configured the kernel).



Thanks for pointing that out Adam ! Will this work better:



#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

int main() {

char *mem[10000];
int i, n;

for(i=0;i<2000;i++) {
	printf("Doing alloc %0d ...\n",i);
	mem[i] = (char *)malloc(1024*1024*1024);
	if(mem[i] == NULL)
		printf("Malloc failed ...\n");
	else
		for(n=0;n<(1024*1024*1024);n=n+640)	mem[i][n] = n;
   }

while(1);

return(0);
}


Thanks !
rudi