Hi John,

did you by any chance have a bit of time to look into this matter?

Thanks,
Petr


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Petr Velan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I did the testing only with disabled mmap, no other modifications. I'm now
> sending you an email with link to download the complete log. I'm trying it
> on an older version from SVN revision 657. Sadly, the newest is not
> compatible with the tested system.
>
> The log file is quite big 19GB, I compressed it to 2.5GB and the link
> should be in another email shortly. I'm using
> https://filesender.cesnet.cz/ service for the transfer.
>
> Let me know if there is anything more that I can do.
>
> Best,
> Petr
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, K. John Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Petr,
>>
>> FastBit is only tracking the memory usage of a few object types such
>> as ibis::array_t and ibis::buffer.  Since you are using a compression
>> layer, I presume that you are also allocating considerable amounts of
>> memory using malloc or new directly.  This would mean FastBit is only
>> tracking a part of the memory uses.  If you turn up the verboseness of
>> the FastBit code, say, ibis::util::setVerboseLevel(10), and ship me
>> the log messages, I can take a look and see if I can spot anything
>> more useful to suggest.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 3/20/14, 6:35 AM, Petr Velan wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > I'm currently working on FastBit support for compressed files. To
>> > simplify things a bit for a start, I have disabled the MMAP support
>> > and forced FastBit to use open, read, write and seek functions. Then I
>> > hooked into these functions and provided a compression layer. The
>> > problem is that just disabling the MMAP causes FastBit to use so much
>> > memory that OOM killer terminates the process for some aggregation
>> > queries.
>> >
>> > Is there anything I can do to tell FastBit to limit the amount of
>> > memory it can use? I thought that only half of the available memory
>> > will be used by default. I've tested this issue on latest SVN revision.
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance for any help,
>> > Petr Velan
>> >
>> >
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