Update on 'pfMalloc() Unable to allocate heap ...'

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Shahram Shiri (ron++at++miniator.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Thu, 10 Nov 1994 13:12:36 -0500

        This error showed up sometime ago on the net and the response from Jim
Helman was to increase the shell limits. Here is an update to the error and
looking for a better solution.

        Loading a 30 Meg Wavefront .obj file into the perfly on a Indigo-2 with
increased limits on the shell works fine. However, the same program crashes on
two different ONYXES with RE2 and produce the heap memory allocation problem.
 Looking at the memory usage on ONYX, it does not even attempt to load the data
into the available ram (640 Meg). The shell scenerio is like:

root++at++holodeck 2#limit -h
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize 524288 kbytes
stacksize 524288 kbytes
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse 524288 kbytes
descriptors 2500
vmemoryuse 524288 kbytes
root++at++holodeck 4#perfly sd512tex.obj
perfly - Command not found
root++at++holodeck 5#./perfly sd512tex.obj
Performer Info (9): All 2 processors available on this machine.
Performer Fatal (12): pfMalloc() Unable to allocate 5032716 bytes from the
heap.

        Any suggestions and possible work arounds are welcomed.

-Ron

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