From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA11250; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:52:33 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA11246 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:52:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6BNqVD28930 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:52:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from user-0ccegbj.cable.mindspring.com ([24.199.65.115] helo=flapdragon.homeip.net) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SnjX-0007Ac-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:52:27 -0700 Subject: [Caml-list] Out-of-memory faults and other cygwin issues From: "Yaron M. Minsky" To: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 11 Jul 2002 19:52:26 -0400 Message-Id: <1026431547.1216.46.camel@dragonfly.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Does anyone know what triggers ocaml to crash on an "out-of-memory" error? I'm currently using ocaml on cygwin, and I find that my program often crashes after the memory size reaches about ~200 megs. This happened on a machine with a gig of ram and that didn't have all that much else running. Another thing I've noticed is that ocaml doesn't seem to collect memory at the times I expect it to. In particular, after clearing all references to the big memory structures and running Gc.full_major and Gc.collect (in that order), the memory size (as measured by the Windows task manager) doesn't immediately go down. It's possible that I've neglected to clear my memory references, but I don't think that's it. Another odd and regrettable thing I've noticed about ocaml-on-cygwin is that when it crashes with a stack error, on cygwin it does so silently--no error message at all. Anyone know if this is something that can be worked around? Thanks in advance, y -- |--------/ Yaron M. Minsky \--------| |--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------| Open PGP --- KeyID B1FFD916 (new key as of Dec 4th) Fingerprint: 5BF6 83E1 0CE3 1043 95D8 F8D5 9F12 B3A9 B1FF D916 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners