Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:50:21 12/21/03
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On December 21, 2003 at 01:22:53, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>On December 20, 2003 at 23:03:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 19, 2003 at 20:43:41, Sean Mintz wrote:
>>
>>>This has been occuring with the past few versions of Crafty (19.5 to 19.8). If
>>>run for an extended period of time (a few hours), the amount of virtual memory
>>>Crafty uses gradually adds up. Over time this adds up to almost a gigabyte.
>>>Does anyone else experience this?
>>>
>>>Sean Mintz
>>
>>
>>Your adaptive command produces one question you can answer for me...
>>
>>use your adaptive command in "text mode" (console mode).
>>
>>then type a "level 0 5 3" command
>>
>>and the hash size will self-adjust. Check the memory usage. Then
>>do
>>
>>" level 0 60 60" which should adjust hash size way up.
>>
>>Check memory usage again. Then back to the level 0 5 3 and so forth,
>>and the memory size should _not_ slowly increase. If it does, that will
>>point me to what is happening in windows....
>
>If you can compile your own version of Crafty, can you please make the following
>experiment: in file utility.c search for "WinFreeInterleaved", and replace
>
>void WinFreeInterleaved(void *pMemory, size_t cBytes) {
> VirtualFree(pMemory, // base address of block
> cBytes, // bytes of committed pages
> MEM_DECOMMIT|MEM_RELEASE); // decommit the pages
>}
>
>by
>
>void WinFreeInterleaved(void *pMemory, size_t cBytes) {
> VirtualFree(pMemory, 0, MEM_RELEASE);
>}
>
>I suspect that will fix the problem.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene
OK. If that fixes it, is it something I should do in the existing source?
Will it affect crafty/NUMA/windows?
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