From: "Yaron M. Minsky" <yminsky@CS.Cornell.EDU>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Out-of-memory faults and other cygwin issues
Date: 11 Jul 2002 20:15:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026432936.1151.53.camel@dragonfly.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1026431547.1216.46.camel@dragonfly.localdomain>
One possibly thing I neglected to mention: I've been compiling with
ocamlopt.
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 19:52, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
> 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-12 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-11 23:52 Yaron M. Minsky
2002-07-12 0:15 ` Yaron M. Minsky [this message]
2002-07-12 1:18 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2002-07-12 1:22 ` Yaron M. Minsky
2002-07-12 13:58 ` Xavier Leroy
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