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OCaml runtime using too much memory in 64-bit Linux

Adam Chlipala
- Gerd Stolpmann
  - Adam Chlipala
    - Samuel Mimram
    - Romain Beauxis
      - Vladimir Shabanov
        
        Xavier Leroy
        
        Brian Hurt
        
        Romain Beauxis
        
        Markus Mottl
        
        Stefan Monnier
        
        Brian Hurt
        
        Lionel Elie Mamane
        
        Stefan Monnier
        
        Lionel Elie Mamane
        
        Lionel Elie Mamane
- Romain Beauxis

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Romain Beauxis <toots@r...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] OCaml runtime using too much memory in 64-bit Linux

	Hi Xavier !

Le Wednesday 14 November 2007 13:55:40 Xavier Leroy, vous avez écrit :
> Apparently, this trick is no longer working on some systems, but I
> need to understand better which ones exactly.  (I suspect some Linux
> distros that applied address randomization patches to the stock Linux
> kernel.)  So, please provide feedback in the BTS.

While printing the required data for your bug report, we found out that:
  /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
can be set to 0

Afterward, the issue does not appear anymore.


Quite a good workaround until a real fix appear.. :)


Romain