> On Dec 13, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Matt Welland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Peter Bex <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:13:54AM -0700, Matt Welland wrote:
> > I'm using Chicken 4.10.0 and with the below script chicken rapidly
> > allocates memory then seems to get stuck:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Try to update to CHICKEN 4.13.0 first (standard advice, we usually
> fix lots of issues in new versions).  I simply get this after a few
> seconds:
> 
> [panic] out of memory - heap has reached its maximum size - execution 
> terminated
> 
> The fix is to increase the maximum allowed heap size using -:hm:
> csi -:hm4G ./test.scm cleanly exits after a few seconds here with either
> version of CHICKEN.
> 
> > The program chokes after 133 rounds through the loop. No "out of memory'
> > message.
> 
> I suppose that's a bug we fixed in 4.13.0; I seem to recall an issue like
> that where allocating near the maximum heap size would result in it
> triggering a GC, then filling up the heap immediately again etc, resulting
> in a GC loop, but I can't find it in NEWS right now.

sounds familiar to me as well but looks like a such a note didn’t make it in

> 
> Much better with 4.13. Thanks. I have it working up to 128G. I don't 
> understand the heap and will do some more reading but am I correct in 
> assuming that the size of the heap will determine the largest data structure 
> I can have in memory?

umm, 2-space heap so ~64GB in your ex

> I base this on seeing the VIRT column in htop plateau at 128G when I used 
> -:nm128G. 
>  
> > The process memory usage doesn't seem to grow and the program just
> > hangs. I added -B: but didn't get any output.
> 
> Try the -:g option (debugging output for the GC); you'll quickly see that
> it's resizing the heap all the time to the same limit.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
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