From: MLM Veraart (veraart++at++fel.tno.nl)
Date: 05/31/2002 03:19:34
Ozarka Simatomi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> This is kind of an emergency.
> I got the following error message:
> pfMemory::new() unable to allocate 100832 bytes
> from arena 0x44000. Try use pfSharedArenaSize() to
> increase the arena size (currently 262144.00
> KBytes)...
> Does this mean there is memory leakage in my
> application?
> The program can run for a couple of hours without
> a problem, but sometimes it crashed with above
> message, or it crashed and the whole system crashed
> (Octane with IRIX).
> My Performer program also sproc() off two other
> processes. If there is memory leakage in other
> processes, will this affect the Performer program?
> It looks like I don't have this problem until I
> am displaying my virtual reality scene on a seperate
> monitor.
> Thanks a lot!
>
You probably are suffering from memory fragmentation in shared memory.
This is due to malloc and free of datastructures.
The thing you can do is set a few amallopt() calls. See the man page.
Mario
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