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From: Florian Hars <florian@hars.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Debugging memory-intensive programs...
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:38:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011109153803.A339@hars> (raw)

Timetravel considered harmful:

I just tried to debug a program that reads a lot of data and keeps
a significant part of it in memory because it died with a string
or array out of bounds exception halfway through it's input.
Here is part of what syslog said when I ran it in ocamldebug:

Nov  9 15:06:33 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Nov  9 15:06:34 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mozilla-bin...
Nov  9 15:06:57 quetelet last message repeated 4 times
Nov  9 15:06:57 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for apache...
Nov  9 15:07:01 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...

[...]

Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sshd...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 4 times
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: killing process sshd

[...]

Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for emacs...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 16 times
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 15 times
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for proftpd...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 15 times
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for XF86_Mach64...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 15 times

[...]

Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for emacs...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet last message repeated 16 times
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: killing process emacs
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for inetd...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bash...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for editor...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for mutt...
Nov  9 15:14:41 quetelet kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd...

Guess I have to do something else... :-)

Yours, Florian Hars.
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-09 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-09 14:38 Florian Hars [this message]
2001-11-09 15:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann

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