Re: [Caml-list] OCaml runtime using too much memory in 64-bit Linux

["Vladimir Shabanov" <vshabanoff@gmail.com>]

2007/11/14, Romain Beauxis <romain.beauxis@gmail.com>:
> Following Sam's answer on similar issue with our application, here are two
> compared outputs for the same informations:
>
> -- On i386:
> 5:13 toots@selassie ~% OCAMLRUNPARAM="v=12" liquidsoap 'output.dummy(blank())'
> Growing heap to 480k bytes
> Growing page table to 2648 entries
> Growing heap to 720k bytes
> Growing page table to 2710 entries
> Growing heap to 960k bytes
> Growing page table to 2815 entries
>
> -- On amd64:
> 5:12 toots@ras-macintosh ~/sources/svn/savonet/trunk/liquidsoap/src%
> OCAMLRUNPARAM="v=12" ./liquidsoap 'output.dummy(blank())'
> Growing heap to 960k bytes
> Growing page table to 104640820 entries
> Growing heap to 1440k bytes
> Growing heap to 1920k bytes
>
> It seems that the "Growing page table to 104640820 entries" in amd64's log is
> quite enourmeous, compared to similar values for i386.

I also have problems with my application on amd64. The difference is
that I have additional memory allocated only in bytecode executable.

native amd64:
$ OCAMLRUNPARAM="v=12" ./_build/game.opt
Growing heap to 960k bytes
Growing page table to 72391 entries
... (program output stripped)
Growing heap to 1440k bytes
Growing page table to 90522 entries
...

bytecode amd64:
$ OCAMLRUNPARAM="v=12" ./_build/game
Initial stack limit: 8192k bytes
Growing gray_vals to 32k bytes
Growing heap to 960k bytes
Growing page table to 141518746 entries
...
Growing heap to 1440k bytes
...

It gives me 80--300MB of additional memory allocated (virt & res).
Interestingly enough the number of page table entries is different
from run to run (hence the non-constant additional memory size). In
native executable page table entries count is constant.