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[Gc] Fwd: [ivmai/bdwgc] MAX_HEAP_SECTS too little? (#143)
Ivan Maidanski
2017-02-02 18:29:27 UTC
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Subj: [ivmai/bdwgc] MAX_HEAP_SECTS too little? (#143)

If I create a program that tries to exhaust the memory then it dies with the "Too many heap sections", rather than a heap exhaustion.
We have defined LARGE_CONFIG and for 64bit platform the comment says that it should give an overflow at "roughly 128 GB":
#ifndef MAX_HEAP_SECTS
# ifdef LARGE_CONFIG
# if CPP_WORDSZ > 32
# define MAX_HEAP_SECTS 8192 /* overflows at roughly 128 GB */
# else
# define MAX_HEAP_SECTS 768 /* Separately added heap sections. */
# endif
# elif defined(SMALL_CONFIG) && !defined(USE_PROC_FOR_LIBRARIES)
The HBLKSIZE is 4KB and each heap section will contain between 64 (MINHINCR) and 4096 (MAXHINCR) heap blocks.
As far as I can see this means that the "overflow" will occur at some point between 2 GB and 128 GB.
I can of course set the MAX_HEAP_SECTS larger myself, but isn't this a general problem that everybody will have to address.
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