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Top Forums Programming calloc fails: 'Cannot allocate memory' Post 302601206 by baruchgu on Thursday 23rd of February 2012 05:55:31 AM
Old 02-23-2012
Network calloc fails: 'Cannot allocate memory'

Hi , experts.

I work on Linux station (RedHat 5.7), regular user, but have a root password.

Code:
%> uname -a
Linux ran1log06 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:32:19 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
%> cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m

My C code application allocates memory by a lot of calloc(...)

The application fails when the station has many processes - calloc returns NULL pointer and error "Cannot allocate memory"
I see in /bin/top, that my program holds ~30MB RES memory and ~80MB vitual. Smilie

But there is a lot of free memory here.

Code:
%> /bin/top
.....
Mem:   8017116k total,  7977268k used,    39848k free,   223948k buffers
Swap:  2097144k total,      184k used,  2096960k free,  3070888k cached

there is no problem with limit also:
Code:
%> limit
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize unlimited
stacksize unlimited
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse unlimited
vmemoryuse unlimited
descriptors 1024
memorylocked 32 kbytes
maxproc 65535

It runs fine in other not loaded Linux systems, also Red Hat 5.7

What may be the problem here?
May be some limit on the process on this system?
Or gcc compiler limits it?
How can I check it?


Note: I have already ported this problem in "Linux" forum. But got no help till now.

Last edited by baruchgu; 02-23-2012 at 07:04 AM..
 

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