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  • Windows 7 on a 64-bit computer

    - by GetFree
    I read on Wikipedia that Windows 7 on a 64-bit PC needs twice as much RAM as on a 32-bit PC. I understand why is that: every number stored in memory takes 8 bytes rather than just 4. That, in simple terms, means that your amount of RAM is reduced to half when you use Windows 7 on a 64-bit computer. Now, I have a Intel Core 2 Duo Laptop with Windows Vista right now (2 GB of RAM). My question is: Since Core 2 is a 64-bit architecture, if I upgrade to Windows 7 will my laptop be working as if it had just 1 GB of RAM? Or... to say it in other words: Having a 64-bit PC with Windows 7 do you need twice as much RAM as you need on a 32-bit PC to have the same performance? If I am right, then I'd say it's a terrible business to have a 64-bit computer and Windows 7 on it (I hope I am mistaken, though). Follow-up: After some answers, I'm realizing it's not the same thing to have a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit PC than a 64-bit OS on a 64-bit PC. Apparently, the problem of Windows 7 requiring twice as much RAM on 64-bit architectures is when you have both the OS and PC supporting 64 bits. I'd like new answers to address this issue. Also, is it possible to have more that 4 GB of RAM on a 64-bit PC using a 32-bit version of Windows?

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  • Two Firefox windows vs two browsers? Ram Consumption

    - by Kayle
    I don't know enough about Ram & sharing to know what the difference is here. Normally, I run Chrome in one desktop for personal use, and Firefox on a second desktop for business. I like the separation of saved passwords and whatnot. However, I recently learned that I can open two different profiles in Firefox at the same time, so I was wondering if that would be cheaper to my system resources, or not? Out the door, I don't think it would save more than 40-60mb of ram... but I'm wondering, 3 hours later, if ram handling will be better using just one browser for all my heavy lifting. I only have 2gb of ram and I run iTunes and Photoshop as well, almost all day. So I like to save ram where I can. Any thoughts? UPDATE: I've been centering around chrome more recently and using firefox for testing. Dev isn't bad on Chrome and it's great at releasing memory when I close tabs. In retrospect, I think the best answer to this question is simply for me to buy another 2gb of ram.

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  • Ubuntu server crashes; need help figuring how to figure out why

    - by neezer
    I have a 768 Slice at slicehost.com running Ubuntu Server 8.04.2 LTS (hardy) with a LAMP stack on it that periodically crashes, though why I am not sure. From what I can tell, there is a process that basically goes rogue and consumes all the memory on the slice, suffocating all the other programs running until the whole thing comes to a grinding halt, and I have to do a hard reboot of the slice to get it back up and running again. I can't detect any pattern for this (it seems to happen about once a month, more or less). Here's a screenshot of my console during the last crash: I would assume that a possible cause might a PHP script or an apache configuration rule that might cause the crash if triggered? How would I be able to find out which one is the offending one? I've checked and rechecked all my PHP scripts, and running them doesn't seem to trigger the crash. I've also been able to log on to my system during a crash and see what's running (with top), but I can't tell how the offending process was started, so I can't trace the root of the problem! I know my description is overly generic, but unfortunately my expertise in tracking down the source of these glitches is very limited. If you need any additional information about my system in order to help me figure this out, please let me know in the comments, and I will append it to the question. My only other lead as to the culprit here is Wordpress, which we have installed on this server. Here are the details: Wordpress 3.0.3 with the following plugins installed and activated: Addmarx - Bookmark/Share/Email Dropdown, Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Animated Banners, Automatically publish highlights of any website, directly to your Blog, Broken Link Checker, CMS Dashboard, Collapsing Categories, Status Updater, SubHeading, Ultimate Google Analytics, VastSubCat, WP-CMS Post Control, and WP Super Cache

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  • When modern computers boot, what initial setup of RAM do they execute, and how does it exactly work?

    - by user272840
    I know the title reeks of confusion, and some of you might assume I am just wondering about how the computer boots in general, but I'm not. But I'll sort this out for you people now: 1.Onboard firmware is how mostly all modern computer devices work, whether or not with EFI/UEFI(even without "onboard firmware", older computers still employed bank switching, or similar methods with snap-in firmware, cartridges, etc.) 2.On startup there is no "programs" running in the traditional sense yet, i.e. no kernel, OS, user-applications; all of the instructions, especially the very first instruction, is specified by the Instruction Pointer, I am guessing. How is the IP/PC/etc. set to first point to an address for a BIOS/firmware/etc. instruction, and how do the BIOS instructions map themself out in memory prior to startup? 3.Aside from MMIO, BIOS uses certain RAM addresses to have instructions. The big ? comes in when I ask this ... how does BIOS do this? Conclusion: I am assuming that with the very first instruction there is an initial hardware setup for BIOS prior to complete OS bootup. What I want to know is if it's hardware engineered to always work this way, if there's another step in this bootup method I am missing, a gap of information I am unaware of, or how this all works from the very first instruction, and the RAM data itself.

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  • How To Boot with "mem=1024m" Argument using GRUB - Ubuntu 10.04

    - by nicorellius
    I am still working on this question. This new one is a different question so I thought it would be good to post a new question. Is this the proper protocol or should I have just edited the other question? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with the kernel 2.6.32-22-generic on a Toshiba Satellite laptop. When I enter the GRUB menu (I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed as well), I can choose which kernel to boot. I use scroll down to the one I want and press "e" and I expect to be able to enter mem=1024m and force the kernel to use this much memory. But when I run cat /proc/meminfo or look in the process manager after booting wth this argument I still see all the RAM: ~2 GB. Am I using this boot argument incorrectly? The boot configuration (before I add anything) looks like this: insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 10270f21-1c42-494b-bd3f-813c23f6d\ 518 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=10270f21-1c42-494b-b\ d3f-813c23f6d518 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic The way I did this was that I added the mem=1024m after the last line and pressed Ctrl+x (Emacs save and boot the kernel) and the system booted. I tried adding mem=1024m to the end and the beginning of this list and it appeared to not change the RAM allocation.

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  • Java: compile and run hanging at command prompt

    - by dwwilson66
    I'm having an issue that I'm hoping someone can help with. I'm working on netbook running WinXP Pro SP3, 1.6GHz & 1GB of RAM. I've got a relatively simple java program that I'm able to successfully compile and run on other computers (both XP and Win7), so I suspect my code is working fine--I've verified that all computers are running the same version of Java (build 1.7.0_02-b13). For about the past week, I get maybe three or four compiles and runs at the command prompt (running CMD from within WinXp) before I hang with a blinking cursor after keying my command and pressing enter. If I shut down the command prompt window and restart it, I can compile and run the program just fine--again, pointing to an OS/environment issue rather than code. The only system change I've made in the past week is to uninstall a Lexmark printer that I ditched a year ago, and removing/reinstalling Java. Oh, and an automatic Windows update... :\ I've used this netbook successfully for programming classes for the past year and a half. Anyone familiar with this issue and know of some system tweaks to solve it? I suspect that memory may not be getting cleaned up when the java program quits...only when CMD closes, but don't know any tools to troubleshoot. Ideas?

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  • Why doesn't the value in /proc/meminfo seem to map exactly to the system RAM?

    - by Eric Asberry
    The values in /proc/meminfo for MemTotal don't make sense. As a human, eyeballing it, it seems to roughly correspond to the installed RAM, but for using it to display the installed RAM from an automated utility it appears to be inexact, and inconsistent. For a system with 1G of RAM, I would expect the MemTotal line to have a value of 1048576 - 1024*1024. But instead, I'm seeing 1029392. On another 4G box, I'm seeing 3870172, which is not a multiple of 1024, and it's not even close to 1029392*4. On an 8G box, I get 8128204, which again seems to have no correlation to the other values, nor is it a multiple of 1024. I'm trying to use this information to report the RAM on a status web page. My work-around is to just "round" it to the nearest 1G multiple, but I'd like to understand why these values seem inconsistent and don't match my expectations. Can somebody fill me in on what I'm missing here? EDIT: To expand on the accepted answer below.... The reference can be found here. Also of interest to me from that page, which explains the inconsistency, is this bit: meminfo: Provides information about distribution and utilization of memory. This varies by architecture and compile options. ...

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  • Auto-restart mysql when it dies

    - by Los Frijoles
    I have a rackspace server that I have been renting to run my personal projects upon. Since I am cheap, it has 256Mb of RAM and honestly can't handle alot. Every once in a while, when there is a sharp uptick in traffic, the server decides to start killing processes and it seems that mysqld is a popular one for it to kill. I try to visit my site and am greeted with the message that there was an error establishing the database connection. Inspection of the logs reveals that mysqld was killed due to lack of memory. Since I am still as poor as I was yesterday and don't want to upgrade my rackspace VM's RAM, is there a way I can tell it to automagically restart mysqld when it dies? I have a thought to use something like crontab, but alas, I don't know exactly what to do there either. I guess I am product of the "Linux on your desktop" generation since I can do most things on my desktop and laptop (which run Linux almost exclusively), but still lack a lot of server administration skills for Linux. The server runs CentOS 6.3

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  • How much Ram should I need on my VPS package? Am I being ripped off?

    - by Tamerax
    Hello! So, I'm currently on a VPSVille Cpanel3 account that has 768 MB guaranteed ram and 2048 MB burst ram (full details here: http://www.vpsville.ca/cpanel-vps). It's running CentOS, Cpanel, Apache and FastCGI. On the server itself I have a joomla community site with a forum system that generally has about 20 people on it max at any point and even then, during the evening, no one. It's a pretty small site but has a number of modules running on it. It gets about 6000 visits a month. Also on the server is a wordpress site that gets about 80-150 visits a day, 2 other wordpress sites that aren't developed yet so they don't get any traffic at all and 2 static html websites that also only get about 500 hits a month. All in all, no huge sites. The issue is that I get "out of memory" errors fairly frequently and it kills my server and I need to reboot it in order to get all my sites up and running again. It seems to me that I shouldn't have these issues with that much ram allotted to my account and everytime I send in a support ticket, they just tell me to upgrade the ram. Now, I'm still pretty new to all this so I'm not a good judge of how much I really need for my sites to run. I don't know if my sites really do need this much OR vpsville has oversold there servers, they don't actually have those resources available and I'm getting ripped off. So, how much ram should I be using with my current setup? Thanks!

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  • Hp Pavilion dv6000 wont boot right and freezes

    - by MalwareManiac
    I have an hp pavilion dv6000 that was having windows issues recently including randomly freezing. I eventually concluded that the hard drive was bad (And I was correct as the bad drive started making funny noises and quit working soon after). So I replaced it with a known good drive and put windows on it and it worked for a few hours. After a few restarts startup didn't even make it to the login screen. It just stays at a lighted black screen until I restarted. After another restart it made it to windows but then froze after a few minutes. A few more restarts yielded one of these two results. Like I mentioned earlier I have a know good drive in it and I also replaced the memory that was in it with a know good stick along with running memtest with no errors. So What does that leave? a corrupted windows installation? Motherboard? CPU? Any ideas?

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  • iPhone: CoreGraphics and memory management

    - by carloe
    Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here? I use this method to flip through pages in a PDF. But something in the code seems to not be released properly because every-time I pull a PDF page that contains an image my memory footprint increases. I am fairly new to CoreGraphics, and can't for the life of me figure out where this method would leak memory. -(UIImage *)pageAtIndex:(NSInteger)pageNumber withWidth:(CGFloat)width andHeight:(CGFloat)height { if((pageNumber>0) && (pageNumber<=pageCount)) { CGFloat scaleRatio; // multiplier by which the PDF Page will be scaled UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(width, height)); CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); CGPDFPageRef page = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(pdf, pageNumber); CGRect pageRect = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(page, kCGPDFBleedBox); //Figure out the orientation of the PDF page and set the scaleRatio accordingly if(pageRect.size.width/pageRect.size.height < 1.0) { scaleRatio = height/pageRect.size.height; } else { scaleRatio = width/pageRect.size.width; } //Calculate the offset to center the image CGFloat xOffset = 0.0; CGFloat yOffset = height; if(pageRect.size.width*scaleRatio<width) { xOffset = (width/2)-(pageRect.size.width*scaleRatio/2); } else { yOffset = height-((height/2)-(pageRect.size.height*scaleRatio/2)); } CGContextTranslateCTM(context, xOffset, yOffset); CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0); CGContextSaveGState(context); CGAffineTransform pdfTransform = CGPDFPageGetDrawingTransform(page, kCGPDFBleedBox, CGRectMake(0, 0, pageRect.size.width, pageRect.size.height), 0, true); pdfTransform = CGAffineTransformScale(pdfTransform, scaleRatio, scaleRatio); CGContextConcatCTM(context, pdfTransform); CGContextDrawPDFPage(context, page); UIImage *tempImage = [UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() retain]; CGContextRestoreGState(context); UIGraphicsEndPDFContext(); UIGraphicsEndImageContext(); return tempImage; } return nil; }

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  • C# CreatePipe() -> Protected memory error

    - by M. Dimitri
    Hi all, I trying to create a pipe using C#. The code is quite simple but I get a error saying "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." Here the COMPLETE code of my form : public partial class Form1 : Form { [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)] public static extern bool CreatePipe(out SafeFileHandle hReadPipe, out SafeFileHandle hWritePipe, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpPipeAttributes, int nSize); [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES { public DWORD nLength; public IntPtr lpSecurityDescriptor; public bool bInheritHandle; } public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void btCreate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa = new SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES(); sa.nLength = (DWORD)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(sa); sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = IntPtr.Zero; sa.bInheritHandle = true; SafeFileHandle hWrite = null; SafeFileHandle hRead = null; if (CreatePipe(out hRead, out hWrite, sa, 4096)) { MessageBox.Show("Pipe created !"); } else MessageBox.Show("Error : Pipe not created !"); } } At the top I declare : using DWORD = System.UInt32; Thank you very much if someone can help.

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  • System Out Of Memory Exception in Production Server

    - by Sachin Gupta
    We have .net application installed on production server. It is using .net FrameWork 3.0 on windows server 2003 with RAM 4 GB. But there is a problem in application while running sometimes it throws system out of memory exception. I am very frustrating with this. Also I am unable to simulate the issue. I had checked all the possibilities which can cause the problem but didn’t get any thing which solve the issue I checked on production server event log found the Out Of Memory Exception also INVALID VIEW STATE logs are there. Look at the following event log which may help to find solutions. Exception information: Exception type: HttpException Exception message: Invalid viewstate. Request information: Request path: /zContest/ScriptResource.axd User: LisaA Is authenticated: True Authentication Type: Forms Thread information: Thread ID: 10 Is impersonating: True Stack trace: at System.Web.UI.Page.DecryptStringWithIV(String s, IVType ivType) at System.Web.UI.Page.DecryptString(String s) at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.DecryptParameter(NameValueCollection queryString) at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpResponse response, NameValueCollection queryString, VirtualFileReader fileReader) at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Process information: Process ID: 5388 Process name: w3wp.exe Exception information: Exception type: OutOfMemoryException Exception message: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please help me out on this

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  • Memory leak / GLib issue.

    - by Andrei Ciobanu
    1: /* 2: * File: xyn-playlist.c 3: * Author: Andrei Ciobanu 4: * 5: * Created on June 4, 2010, 12:47 PM 6: */ 7:   8: #include <dirent.h> 9: #include <glib.h> 10: #include <stdio.h> 11: #include <stdlib.h> 12: #include <sys/stat.h> 13: #include <unistd.h> 14:   15: /** 16: * Returns a list all the file(paths) from a directory. 17: * Returns 'NULL' if a certain error occurs. 18: * @param dir_path. 19: * @param A list of gchars* indicating what file patterns to detect. 20: */ 21: GSList *xyn_pl_get_files(const gchar *dir_path, GSList *file_patterns) { 22: /* Returning list containing file paths */ 23: GSList *fpaths = NULL; 24: /* Used to scan directories for subdirs. Acts like a 25: * stack, to avoid recursion. */ 26: GSList *dirs = NULL; 27: /* Current dir */ 28: DIR *cdir = NULL; 29: /* Current dir entries */ 30: struct dirent *cent = NULL; 31: /* File stats */ 32: struct stat cent_stat; 33: /* dir_path duplicate, on the heap */ 34: gchar *dir_pdup; 35:   36: if (dir_path == NULL) { 37: return NULL; 38: } 39:   40: dir_pdup = g_strdup((const gchar*) dir_path); 41: dirs = g_slist_append(dirs, (gpointer) dir_pdup); 42: while (dirs != NULL) { 43: cdir = opendir((const gchar*) dirs->data); 44: if (cdir == NULL) { 45: g_slist_free(dirs); 46: g_slist_free(fpaths); 47: return NULL; 48: } 49: chdir((const gchar*) dirs->data); 50: while ((cent = readdir(cdir)) != NULL) { 51: lstat(cent->d_name, &cent_stat); 52: if (S_ISDIR(cent_stat.st_mode)) { 53: if (g_strcmp0(cent->d_name, ".") == 0 || 54: g_strcmp0(cent->d_name, "..") == 0) { 55: /* Skip "." and ".." dirs */ 56: continue; 57: } 58: dirs = g_slist_append(dirs, 59: g_strconcat((gchar*) dirs->data, "/", cent->d_name, NULL)); 60: } else { 61: fpaths = g_slist_append(fpaths, 62: g_strconcat((gchar*) dirs->data, "/", cent->d_name, NULL)); 63: } 64: } 65: g_free(dirs->data); 66: dirs = g_slist_delete_link(dirs, dirs); 67: closedir(cdir); 68: } 69: return fpaths; 70: } 71:   72: int main(int argc, char** argv) { 73: GSList *l = NULL; 74: l = xyn_pl_get_files("/home/andrei/Music", NULL); 75: g_slist_foreach(l,(GFunc)printf,NULL); 76: printf("%d\n",g_slist_length(l)); 77: g_slist_free(l); 78: return (0); 79: } 80:   81:   82: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------==15429== 83: ==15429== HEAP SUMMARY: 84: ==15429== in use at exit: 751,451 bytes in 7,263 blocks 85: ==15429== total heap usage: 8,611 allocs, 1,348 frees, 22,898,217 bytes allocated 86: ==15429== 87: ==15429== 120 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 1 of 11 88: ==15429== at 0x4024106: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:581) 89: ==15429== by 0x4024163: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:709) 90: ==15429== by 0x40969C1: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 91: ==15429== by 0x40971F6: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 92: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 93: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 94: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 95: ==15429== 96: ==15429== 129 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 2 of 11 97: ==15429== at 0x4024F20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236) 98: ==15429== by 0x4081243: g_malloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 99: ==15429== by 0x409B85B: g_strconcat (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 100: ==15429== by 0x80489FE: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:62) 101: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 102: ==15429== 103: ==15429== 360 bytes in 3 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 3 of 11 104: ==15429== at 0x4024106: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:581) 105: ==15429== by 0x4024163: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:709) 106: ==15429== by 0x40969C1: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 107: ==15429== by 0x4097222: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 108: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 109: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 110: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 111: ==15429== 112: ==15429== 508 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 4 of 11 113: ==15429== at 0x402425F: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467) 114: ==15429== by 0x408113B: g_malloc0 (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 115: ==15429== by 0x409624D: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 116: ==15429== by 0x409710C: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 117: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 118: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 119: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 120: ==15429== 121: ==15429== 508 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 5 of 11 122: ==15429== at 0x402425F: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467) 123: ==15429== by 0x408113B: g_malloc0 (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 124: ==15429== by 0x409626F: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 125: ==15429== by 0x409710C: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 126: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 127: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 128: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 129: ==15429== 130: ==15429== 508 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 6 of 11 131: ==15429== at 0x402425F: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467) 132: ==15429== by 0x408113B: g_malloc0 (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 133: ==15429== by 0x4096291: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 134: ==15429== by 0x409710C: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 135: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 136: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 137: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 138: ==15429== 139: ==15429== 1,200 bytes in 10 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 7 of 11 140: ==15429== at 0x4024106: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:581) 141: ==15429== by 0x4024163: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:709) 142: ==15429== by 0x40969C1: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 143: ==15429== by 0x40971F6: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 144: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 145: ==15429== by 0x8048A0D: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:61) 146: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 147: ==15429== 148: ==15429== 2,040 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 8 of 11 149: ==15429== at 0x402425F: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467) 150: ==15429== by 0x408113B: g_malloc0 (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 151: ==15429== by 0x40970AB: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 152: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 153: ==15429== by 0x80488F0: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:41) 154: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 155: ==15429== 156: ==15429== 4,320 bytes in 36 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 9 of 11 157: ==15429== at 0x4024106: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:581) 158: ==15429== by 0x4024163: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:709) 159: ==15429== by 0x40969C1: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 160: ==15429== by 0x4097222: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 161: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 162: ==15429== by 0x80489D2: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:58) 163: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 164: ==15429== 165: ==15429== 56,640 bytes in 472 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 10 of 11 166: ==15429== at 0x4024106: memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:581) 167: ==15429== by 0x4024163: posix_memalign (vg_replace_malloc.c:709) 168: ==15429== by 0x40969C1: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 169: ==15429== by 0x4097222: g_slice_alloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 170: ==15429== by 0x40988A5: g_slist_append (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 171: ==15429== by 0x8048A0D: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:61) 172: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 173: ==15429== 174: ==15429== 685,118 bytes in 6,736 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 11 of 11 175: ==15429== at 0x4024F20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236) 176: ==15429== by 0x4081243: g_malloc (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 177: ==15429== by 0x409B85B: g_strconcat (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1) 178: ==15429== by 0x80489FE: xyn_pl_get_files (xyn-playlist.c:62) 179: ==15429== by 0x8048848: main (main.c:18) 180: ==15429== 181: ==15429== LEAK SUMMARY: 182: ==15429== definitely lost: 685,118 bytes in 6,736 blocks 183: ==15429== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks 184: ==15429== possibly lost: 62,769 bytes in 523 blocks 185: ==15429== still reachable: 3,564 bytes in 4 blocks 186: ==15429== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks 187: ==15429== 188: ==15429== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v 189: ==15429== ERROR SUMMARY: 7 errors from 7 contexts (suppressed: 17 from 8) 190: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the above code in order to create a list with all the filepaths in a certain directory. (In my case fts.h or ftw.h are not an option). I am using GLib as the data structures library. Still I have my doubts in regarding the way GLib is allocating, de-allocating memory ? When invoking g_slist_free(list) i also free the data contained by the elements ? Why all those memory leaks appear ? Is valgrind a suitable tool for profilinf memory issues when using a complex library like GLib ? LATER EDIT: If I g_slist_foreach(l,(GFunc)g_free,NULL);, the valgrind report is different, (All the memory leaks from 'definitely lost' will move to 'indirectly lost'). Still I don't see the point ? Aren't GLib collections implement a way to be freed ?

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  • Winforms: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt

    - by mamcx
    I have a bunch of background events. All of them call a log: private void log(string text, params object[] values) { if (editLog.InvokeRequired) { editLog.BeginInvoke( (MethodInvoker)delegate { this.log(text, values); }); } else { text = string.Format(text, values) + Environment.NewLine; lock (editLog) { editLog.AppendText(text); editLog.SelectionStart = editLog.TextLength; editLog.ScrollToCaret(); } } } Sometimes I get this, but other times not: System.AccessViolationException was unhandled Message=Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. Source=System.Windows.Forms StackTrace: at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.SendMessage(HandleRef hWnd, Int32 msg, Int32 wParam, Object& editOle) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.ScrollToCaret() at Program1.frmMain.log(String text, Object[] values) in ... ... ... P.D: Not always stop at this line, randomly will be one of the three times editLog methods/properties are used. Not always a exception is throw. Sometimes look like the thing freeze. But not the main UI, just the flow of messages (ie: log look like is never called again) The app is a single form, with background process. I can't see what I doing wrong with this...

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  • AccessViolationException from a combo: Attempted to read or write protected memory

    - by Sparky
    Users are occassionally getting the above error when using our application (VB.Net, Winforms, using v2 of the framework). I'm not able to reproduce it. The callstack is as follows: : System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox.WndProc(Message& m) at ControlEx.AutoCompleteCombo.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) The code for ControlEx.AutoCompleteCombo.WndProc is as follows: Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) Try If Not m_fReadOnly Then MyBase.WndProc(m) Else Select Case m.Msg Case WM_LBUTTONDOWN, WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK ' do nothing Case Else MyBase.WndProc(m) End Select End If Catch ex As OutOfMemoryException Throw New OutOfMemoryException("Exception during WndProc for combo " & Me.Name, ex) End Try End Sub The error handling was added so we can determine which combo causes the problem when we get an OutOfMemoryException. Any clues as to what causes this would be muchly appreciated! :-)

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  • Visual Studio project using the Quality Center API remains in memory

    - by Traveling Tech Guy
    Hi, Currently developing a connector DLL to HP's Quality Center. I'm using their (insert expelative) COM API to connect to the server. An Interop wrapper gets created automatically by VStudio. My solution has 2 projects: the DLL and a tester application - essentially a form with buttons that call functions in the DLL. Everything works well - I can create defects, update them and delete them. When I close the main form, the application stops nicely. But when I call a function that returns a list of all available projects (to fill a combo box), if I close the main form, VStudio still shows the solution as running and I have to stop it. I've managed to pinpoint a single function in my code that when I call, the solution remains "hung" and if I don't, it closes well. It's a call to a property in the TDC object get_VisibleProjects that returns a List (not the .Net one, but a type in the COM library) - I just iterate over it and return a proper list (that I later use to fill the combo box): public List<string> GetAvailableProjects() { List<string> projects = new List<string>(); foreach (string project in this.tdc.get_VisibleProjects(qcDomain)) { projects.Add(project); } return projects; } My assumption is that something gets retained in memory. If I run the EXE outside of VStudio it closes - but who knows what gets left behind in memory? My question is - how do I get rid of whatever calling this property returns? Shouldn't the GC handle this? Do I need to delve into pointers? Things I've tried: getting the list into a variable and setting it to null at the end of the function Adding a destructor to the class and nulling the tdc object Stepping through the tester function application all the way out, whne the form closes and the Main function ends - it closes, but VStudio still shows I'm running. Thanks for your assistance!

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  • .NET Remoting memory leak?

    - by PrimeTSS
    I have a Remoting Class as a Singleton <configuration> <system.runtime.remoting> <application> <service> <wellknown mode="Singleton" type="PTSSLinkClasses.PTSSLinkClientDesktopRemotable, PTSSLinkClasses" objectUri="PTSSLinkDesktop" /> </service> <channels> <channel ref="http" port="8901"/> </channels> </application> </system.runtime.remoting> </configuration> Its created within a "server" Service. Another client service consumes this remote object. The client is calling the remote object every .5 second using a timer (polling) (for testing) If the server service is stopped, so the remote object is not available, memory useage for the client service keeps increasing...... I have overwritten InitialLifetimeService to return a null public override Object InitializeLifetimeService() { return null; } If a remote object is not available does .net queue all the call requests to this object??? untill all the memory is consumed? How can I dected if the remote object is not available and stop trying to call the remote method?

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  • FindByIdentity in System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagment Memory Issues

    - by MVC Fanatic
    I'm working on an active directory managament application. In addition to the typical Create A New User, Enable/Disable an account, reset my password etc. it also managages application permissions for all of the clients web applications. Application management is handled by thousands of AD groups such as which are built from 3 letter codes for the application, section and site, there are also hundreds of AD groups which determine which applications and locations a coordinator can grant rights to. All of these groups in turn belong to other groups so I typically filter the groups list with the MemberOf property to find the groups that a user directly belongs to (or everyone has rights to do everything). I've made extensive use of the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagment namespace using the FindByIdentity method in 31 places throughout the application. This method calls a private method FindPrincipalByIdentRefHelper on the internal ADStoreCtx class. A SearchResultCollection is created but not disposed so eventually typically once or twice a day the web server runs out of memory and all of the applications on the web server stop responsing until iis is reset because the resources used by the com objects aren't ever relased. There are places where I fall back to the underlying directory objects, but there are lot of places where I'm using the properties on the Principal - it's a vast improvement over using the esoteric ad property names in the .Net 2.0 Directory services code. I've contacted microsoft about the problem and it's been fixed in .Net 4.0 but they don't currently have plans to fix it in 3.5 unless there is intrest in the community about it. I only found information about it in a couple of places the MDSN documentation in the community content state's there is a memory leak at the bottom (guess I should have read that before using the the method) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb345628.aspx And the class in question is internal and doesn't expose SearchResultsCollection outside the offending method so I can't get at the results to dispose them or inherit from the class and override the method. So my questions are Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so were you able to work around it? Do I have any option besides rewriting the application not using any of the .Net 3.5 active directory code? Thanks

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  • check RAM,page file, /PAE, /3GB, SQL server memory using powershell

    - by Manjot
    I am a powershell novice. After days of searching.... I have put together a small powershell script (as below) to check page file, /PAE switch, /3GB switch, SQL server max RAM, min RAM. I am running this on 1 server. If I want to run it on many servers (from a .txt) file, How can I change it ? How can I change it to search boot.ini file's contents for a given server? clear $strComputer="." $PageFile=Get-WmiObject Win32_PageFile -ComputerName $strComputer Write-Host "Page File Size in MB: " ($PageFile.Filesize/(1024*1024)) $colItems=Get-WmiObject Win32_PhysicalMemory -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ComputerName $strComputer $total=0 foreach ($objItem in $colItems) { $total=$total+ $objItem.Capacity } $isPAEEnabled =Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $strComputer Write-Host "Is PAE Enabled: " $isPAEEnabled.PAEEnabled Write-Host "Is /3GB Enabled: " | Get-Content C:\boot.ini | Select-String "/3GB" -Quiet # how can I change to search boot.ini file's contents on $strComputer $smo = new-object('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $strSQLServer $memSrv = $smo.information.physicalMemory $memMin = $smo.configuration.minServerMemory.runValue $memMax = $smo.configuration.maxServerMemory.runValue ## DBMS Write-Host "Server RAM available: " -noNewLine Write-Host "$memSrv MB" -fore "blue" Write-Host "SQL memory Min: " -noNewLine Write-Host "$memMin MB " Write-Host "SQL memory Max: " -noNewLine Write-Host "$memMax MB" Any comments how this can be improved? Thanks in advance

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  • Objective-C memory model

    - by TofuBeer
    I am attempting to wrap my head around one part of the Objective-C memory model (specifically on the iPhone, so no GC). My background is C/C++/Java, and I am having an issue with the following bit of code (also wondering if I am doing this in an "Objective-C way" or not): - (NSSet *) retrieve { NSMutableSet *set; set = [NSMutableSet new]; // would normally fill the set in here with some data return ([set autorelease]); } - (void) test { NSSet *setA; NSSet *setB; setA = [self retrieve]; setB = [[self retrieve] retain]; [setA release]; [setB release]; } start EDIT Based on comments below, the updated retrieve method: - (NSSet *) retrieve { NSMutableSet *set; set = [[[NSMutableSet alloc] initWithCapacity:100] autorelease]; // would normally fill the set in here with some data return (set); } end EDIT The above code gives a warning for [setA release] "Incorrect decrement of the reference count of an object is not owned at this point by the caller". I though that the "new" set the reference count to 1. Then the "retain" call would add 1, and the "release" call would drop it by 1. Given that wouldn't setA have a reference count of 0 at the end and setB have a reference count of 1 at the end? From what I have figured out by trial and error, setB is correct, and there is no memory leak, but I'd like to understand why that is the case (what is wrong with my understanding of "new", "autorelease", "retain", and "release").

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  • Rails 3 memory issue

    - by Erik
    Hello! I'm developing a new site based on Ruby on Rails 3 beta. I knew this might be a bad idea considering it's just beta, but I still thought it might work. Now though I'm having HUGE problems with Rails consuming huge ammounts of memory. For my application today it consumes about 10 mb per request and it doesn't seem to release it either. So I thought this might be because of bloat in my application and thus I created a test app just to compare. For my test app I just generated a model with a scaffold and then created about 20 records on this model. I then went to the index page and hit refresh and I could immediately see memory taking off! Less than my app but still about 1-3 mb per request. I'm working in OSX Leopard, with Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 3.0.0.beta and a SQLLite db for development. Does anyone recognize my problem? I would really appreciate some help here. :/ Thanks!

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  • Storing PLSQL stored-procedure values in Oracle memory caches for extended periods

    - by Ira Baxter
    I am collecting runtime profiling data from PLSQL stored procedures. The data is collected as certain stored procedures execute, but it needs to accumululate across multiple executions of those procedures. To minimize overhead, I'd like to store that profiling data in some PLSQL-accessable Oracle memory-resident storage somewhere for the duration of the data collection interval, and then dump out the accumulated values. The data collection interval might be seconds or hours; its ok not to store this data across system boots. Something like session state in web servers would do. What are my choices for storing such data? The only method I know about are contexts in dbms_sessions: procedure set_ctx (value in varchar8) as begin dbms_session.set_context ( 'Test_Ctx', 'AccumulatedValue', value, NULL, 'ProfilerSessionId' ); end set_ctx; This works, but takes some 50 milliseconds(!) per update to the accumulated value. What I'm hoping for is a way to access/store an array of values in some Oracle memory using vanilla PLSQL statements, with access times typical of array accesses made to package-local arrays.

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  • getting memory allocation at ActivityIndicator in Iphone sdk

    - by monish
    Hi Guys, Here Im gettimg memory allocation problem at activity indicator and My code is: - (id)init { if (self = [super init]) { self.title=@"Release Details"; contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]]; contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; self.view = contentView; [contentView release]; CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0,0, 320,1500); containerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame]; webView = [ [UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]]; webView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage: [UIImage imageNamed:@"background1.png"]]; webView.delegate = self; [containerView addSubview:webView]; CGRect activityViewframe = CGRectMake(20,8,20, 20); progressInd = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithFrame:activityViewframe]; progressInd.activityIndicatorViewStyle = UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite; progressInd.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin); [containerView addSubview:progressInd]; [progressInd startAnimating]; progressInd.hidden = NO; [progressInd stopAnimating]; [self.view addSubview:containerView]; isFetch=YES; } return self; } -(void) displayInProgressRightBarButton { UIView* rightBarButtonView = [ [UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(270,5,45, 35)]; [rightBarButtonView addSubview:progressInd]; UIBarButtonItem* buttonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:rightBarButtonView]; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = buttonItem; [rightBarButtonView release]; [buttonItem release]; } - (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView { [self displayInProgressRightBarButton]; [progressInd startAnimating]; [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES; } - (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView { [progressInd stopAnimating]; [UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO; } Also I released the progressInd in dealloc eventhough it showing memory allocation at progressInd = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithFrame:activityViewframe]; in init. can anyone help me to solve this. Anyone's help will be much Appreciated. Thank you, Monish.

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  • Thread Synchronisation 101

    - by taspeotis
    Previously I've written some very simple multithreaded code, and I've always been aware that at any time there could be a context switch right in the middle of what I'm doing, so I've always guarded access the shared variables through a CCriticalSection class that enters the critical section on construction and leaves it on destruction. I know this is fairly aggressive and I enter and leave critical sections quite frequently and sometimes egregiously (e.g. at the start of a function when I could put the CCriticalSection inside a tighter code block) but my code doesn't crash and it runs fast enough. At work my multithreaded code needs to be a tighter, only locking/synchronising at the lowest level needed. At work I was trying to debug some multithreaded code, and I came across this: EnterCriticalSection(&m_Crit4); m_bSomeVariable = true; LeaveCriticalSection(&m_Crit4); Now, m_bSomeVariable is a Win32 BOOL (not volatile), which as far as I know is defined to be an int, and on x86 reading and writing these values is a single instruction, and since context switches occur on an instruction boundary then there's no need for synchronising this operation with a critical section. I did some more research online to see whether this operation did not need synchronisation, and I came up with two scenarios it did: The CPU implements out of order execution or the second thread is running on a different core and the updated value is not written into RAM for the other core to see; and The int is not 4-byte aligned. I believe number 1 can be solved using the "volatile" keyword. In VS2005 and later the C++ compiler surrounds access to this variable using memory barriers, ensuring that the variable is always completely written/read to the main system memory before using it. Number 2 I cannot verify, I don't know why the byte alignment would make a difference. I don't know the x86 instruction set, but does mov need to be given a 4-byte aligned address? If not do you need to use a combination of instructions? That would introduce the problem. So... QUESTION 1: Does using the "volatile" keyword (implicity using memory barriers and hinting to the compiler not to optimise this code) absolve a programmer from the need to synchronise a 4-byte/8-byte on x86/x64 variable between read/write operations? QUESTION 2: Is there the explicit requirement that the variable be 4-byte/8-byte aligned? I did some more digging into our code and the variables defined in the class: class CExample { private: CRITICAL_SECTION m_Crit1; // Protects variable a CRITICAL_SECTION m_Crit2; // Protects variable b CRITICAL_SECTION m_Crit3; // Protects variable c CRITICAL_SECTION m_Crit4; // Protects variable d // ... }; Now, to me this seems excessive. I thought critical sections synchronised threads between a process, so if you've got one you can enter it and no other thread in that process can execute. There is no need for a critical section for each variable you want to protect, if you're in a critical section then nothing else can interrupt you. I think the only thing that can change the variables from outside a critical section is if the process shares a memory page with another process (can you do that?) and the other process starts to change the values. Mutexes would also help here, named mutexes are shared across processes, or only processes of the same name? QUESTION 3: Is my analysis of critical sections correct, and should this code be rewritten to use mutexes? I have had a look at other synchronisation objects (semaphores and spinlocks), are they better suited here? QUESTION 4: Where are critical sections/mutexes/semaphores/spinlocks best suited? That is, which synchronisation problem should they be applied to. Is there a vast performance penalty for choosing one over the other? And while we're on it, I read that spinlocks should not be used in a single-core multithreaded environment, only a multi-core multithreaded environment. So, QUESTION 5: Is this wrong, or if not, why is it right? Thanks in advance for any responses :)

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