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>>>>> Wolfram Gloger writes: Wolfram> Hello, >> Forget the rlimit issues, I've just used them to illustrate a problem >> I had with malloc. Wolfram> OK. >> Do I understand you correctly that you changed the meanings of the >> environment variables MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_ and MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_ (and >> the corresponding mallopt options) in a non compatible way - which >> violates the documentation? Wolfram> The effect of MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_ isn't changed. It has been changed in the way that mmap is now also used for smaller regions if sbrk fails. Wolfram> I just want the default behaviour to be `address space completely Wolfram> allocatable', that's why I changed the meaning of MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_. >> Playing around with MALLOC_MMAP_MAX I noticed that it's impossible to >> switch off mmap completly. Do you really define this as a "feature" >> of glibc 2.2? IMO it's a bug. Wolfram> OK, I see your point now, thanks. If setting MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_<=0 Wolfram> (whether via environment or via mallopt) would mean _no mmap Wolfram> whatsoever_, would that be enough (IIRC that's the way used in Emacs, Wolfram> for example)? I would submit a patch quickly then. I'll update the Wolfram> documentation as well. It would be according to the docu: @item M_MMAP_MAX The maximum number of chunks to allocate with @code{mmap}. Setting this to zero disables all use of @code{mmap}. @end table Please send a patch, Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
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