[Valgrind-developers] Running out of memory

[Ayodele T. <em...@st...>]

I am having serious issues running out of memory.  Valgrind claims that it 
cannot allocate 1M of memory (below), but when I look at "top" I see 
almost 1GB of free memory, no swap space being used and no memory shared.

	VG_(get_memory_from_mmap): request for 1048576 bytes failed.
	VG_(get_memory_from_mmap): 2144292771 bytes already allocated.

Valgrind seems to think it has run out of memory although the machine 
seems to believe that it has ample memory.  Any suggestions on how to fix 
this problem?  It is very frustrating.  I am not using the latest release.

The following is a dump of "top", just before it dies.

Ayo


 00:07:55  up 2 days,  9:28, 13 users,  load average: 1.70, 0.97, 0.78
89 processes: 86 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  99.0% user   1.0% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait   0.0% 
idle
Mem:  2064560k av, 1091960k used,  972600k free,       0k shrd,  192148k 
buff
                    939968k actv,   31616k in_d,   45976k in_c
Swap: 4233116k av,       0k used, 4233116k free            467696k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
  959 ayodele   25   0  246M 246M   556 R    99.3 12.2   3:31   0 pegwit
 

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Ayodele Bolaji Thomas  			"Joy in the Morning"                

Ph.D. Candidate Electrical Engineering 	
Computer Systems Laboratory 		
Stanford University
Ayo...@st...

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