On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am using valgrind 3.4.1 to try to find a memory leak. My > program has an initial routine which allocates a lot of memory - > around 1 GB. When I run the program by itself it runs fine, however > when I run it under valgrind, one of the many malloc calls in > the initial routine fails. > > Does anyone know why this would happen? There is plenty of memory > on the machine (64 GB).
On my x86-64 machine, which has 4GB of RAM, I tested with a trivial program and was able to malloc up to 8GB successfully. A 9GB allocation failed. So it's not some limit in Valgrind's malloc implementation; I don't know what the problem is. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
