From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2475 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2013 13:42:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 2463 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2013 13:42:02 -0000 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:42:02 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7UDfxwU010954 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:41:59 -0400 Received: from fche.csb (vpn-56-33.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.56.33]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7UDUBpK010642; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:30:12 -0400 Received: by fche.csb (Postfix, from userid 2569) id 5E1D55817A; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:30:11 -0400 (EDT) To: corpaul Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org Subject: Re: 'random' Allocation failed errors References: <1377857543834-242637.post@n7.nabble.com> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1377857543834-242637.post@n7.nabble.com> (c.bezemer@tudelft.nl's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:12:23 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2013-q3/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 corpaul writes: > When I run probes, I get allocation errors now and then. They appear to be > fairly random, because I am probing the same task (a unit test suite) so > memory usage should be approximately the same. > example: > ERROR: global variable 'times' allocation failed [...] dsmith's recent change to the systemtap runtime (PR15805, commit 3f873e53) changes the way that large data structures like the script hash tables are allocated. Would you mind trying git systemtap a try? - FChE