'random' Allocation failed errors

corpaul c.bezemer@tudelft.nl
Fri Aug 30 10:12:00 GMT 2013


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

Sometimes systemtap gives me a suggestion for which parameter should be
increased (e.g. DMAXMAPENTRIES), sometimes it doesn't. I am running the
probes with the following parameters:
-DMAXMAPENTRIES=120000 -DSTP_NO_OVERLOAD -DMAXSTRINGLEN=4096
-DTRYLOCKDELAY=300 -DMAXSKIPPED=10000 -DMAXACTION=1000 

Are these perhaps exceptionally low/high values? How should I deal with
these allocation errors?

Thanks!




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