Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 30 12:58, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > Yes, looks normal and expected from what you observed.  mmap commits
> > memory top-down and that was apparently the first free slot big enough
> > to fullfil the request.  The default heap size is 384 Megs and then
> > there's apparently not enough space anywhere.
> 
> Sorry if I'm dense, but does this mean that setting the default heap size to
> zero does in fact mean it's trying to use 374MiB... wait, yes it is: the
> memory map is the same when I'm setting the initial heap size to 384MiB with
> peflags.
> 
> So, even though that rather large heap is essentially unused at the point of
> failure and there is enough memory free just beyond the heap, the allocation
> still fails because both the existing heap and the free space are both
> smaller than what's requested?

Well, good question.  You could debug the sbrk function and see why
it fails to reserve the space.


Corinna

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