Re: [Caml-list] memory usage

[Andres Varon <avaron@gmail.com>]

Hello Jean,

There is no 64-bit native OCaml compiler for Mac OS X intel.  I have a  
patch that works in Leopard, but did not compile opt.opt in Tiger,  
meaning that something is not OK,  so I did not offer it to the  
community. The bootstrap went fine, findlib and godi compiled OK too.  
I can post the patches somewhere if you want to give it a shot.

My memory intensive application runs fine in Leopard with this  
compiler. But the binaries do not execute in Tiger (I found that other  
people had the same trouble copying a 64 bit apps from Leopard to  
Tiger and the other way around, but didn't look into it).

If you want it ... I can post it, maybe someone can cleanup my job?  
All that would be needed after patching is:

./configure -host x86_64-apple-darwin -prefix /opt/ocaml/experimental

(The prefix I always add for my ocaml-modified comilers).

best,

Andres

On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Jean Krivine wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I downloaded the last version of ocaml (3.10.2) but I must confess I
> don't know what option I should pass to the compiler to make a binary
> that uses 64 bits.
> I tried naively ocamlopt -ccopt -arch -ccopt x86_64 but that doesn't
> work. Any idea?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>  
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:49:26PM -0400, Jean Krivine wrote:
>>> I am trying to run a stochastic simulator (written in ocaml) on a  
>>> huge
>>> data set and I have the following error message:
>>
>> I can confirm that OCaml works fine with huge datasets, on 64 bit
>> platforms anyway.
>>
>>> sim(9595) malloc: *** mmap(size=1048576) failed (error code=12)
>>> *** error: can't allocate region
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> Fatal error: out of memory.
>>>
>>> My system:
>>>
>>> Mac Pro running OS X 10.5.4
>>> Processor:  2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
>>> Memory:  10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
>>>
>>> Does someone know what happened? Do you have any idea of any  
>>> parameter
>>> I could tune in order to avoid that?
>>
>> Is the compiler 32 bits or 64 bits on this machine?  Try doing:
>>
>> $ ocaml
>> # Sys.word_size ;;
>>
>> It should print out either '32' or '64'.
>>
>> Also run your program under whatever the OS X equivalent of 'strace'
>> is (ktrace?) to find out exactly why the mmap call fails.
>>
>> OCaml <= 3.10.2 on Linux suffers a nasty problem with its use of mmap
>> and randomized address spaces
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445545#c9) but it  
>> doesn't
>> seem like this is the same issue.
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Jones
>> Red Hat
>>
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