Am Samstag, den 23.07.2005, 18:53 +0200 schrieb Albert Pauw:
> >As you might have guessed already, your machine is out of memory. Not
> >necessarily a (target) bug, I guess.
> >
> >Arne
> >
> Makes sence in as much that the machine only had 256 MB memory, it's
> just a poor old P-II 350.
That's really not much.
> Maybe not a bug pur sang, but I would have expected the target not to
> gobble up all memory and wanting more without a decent error message.
> Since its buffer memory it is locked in memory, not to be swapped out
> (right assumption?), it can only allocate as much as there is (and
> slightly less as the OS wants some too).
>
> The decent thing is to allocate only as much as there is (maybe limited
> also by a settable maxmem parameter) and not assume that it can allocate
> memory indefinitely. Even with lots of memory it will hit the wall sometime.
>
> But I can not believe that there isn't any check on this in the target code.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12072621
Arne
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