cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys mmap.2

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Mar 25 09:41:38 UTC 2006


Jason Evans <jasone at 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 == 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
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at 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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