how much memory can lww use?
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davef@lispworks.com writes: > > I'm using LWW 4.3.7 on an MS Windows XP machine with 2 GB's of RAM. > > It does not look like my LWW process can use more than 1 GB of memory. > > This new section in the LispWorks User Guide is relevant: > http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw445/LWUG/html/lwuser-306.htm > > You could try using a tool such as ListDLLs or Process Explorer from > www.sysinternals.com to see if some DLL is loaded at around #x60000000 > and thus preventing LispWorks from growing beyond 1GB. Thanks a lot for the info. With the help of Process Explorer, I got the memory map of the various DLL's loaded in LWW's process. Here is an edited and annotated version of the output from Process Explorer with rows sorted based on the values of the Base column: Name Size Base Image Base unicode.nls 0x16000 0x260000 0x0 locale.nls 0x3D000 0x280000 0x0 sortkey.nls 0x41000 0x2C0000 0x0 sorttbls.nls 0x6000 0x310000 0x0 lispworks-4307.exe 0x3A000 0x400000 0x400000 (--- 5.5 MB ---) ctype.nls 0x3000 0x980000 0x0 (--- 2.75 MB ---) LGMSGHK.DLL 0xB000 0xC40000 0x10000000 (--- 243.75 MB ---) LgWndHk.dll 0x7000 0x10000000 0x10000000 (--- 1232.5625 MB ---) comctl32.dll 0x97000 0x5D090000 0x5D090000 (--- 89.1875 MB ---) lpk.dll 0x9000 0x629C0000 0x629C0000 hnetcfg.dll 0x58000 0x662B0000 0x662B0000 Syncor11.dll 0xD000 0x6BD00000 0x6BD00000 mswsock.dll 0x3F000 0x71A50000 0x71A50000 wshtcpip.dll 0x8000 0x71A90000 0x71A90000 ... snipped ... shell32.dll 0x814000 0x7C9C0000 0x7C9C0000 Could someone please explain to a memory idiot like me why my LWW process can get: (room) Generation 0: Total Size 2444K, Allocated 2149K, Free 278K Generation 1: Total Size 1858K, Allocated 1138K, Free 712K Generation 2: Total Size 977492K, Allocated 976262K, Free 1205K Generation 3: Total Size 17422K, Allocated 16999K, Free 405K Total Size 999214K, Allocated 996550K, Free 2602K after it reaches the maximum amount of memory it can get? I thought LWW needed a contiguous chunk of memory to operate but there are only 5.5 MB's of space between lispworks-4307.exe and ctype.nls. Any explanation will be greately appreciated. Best wishes, -cph ps. some addition info: ctype.nls: No description and no company name for this one LGMSGHK.DLL: Logitech Message Hook Library from Logitech LgWndHk.dll: Logitech Call Window Hook Library from Logitech comctl32.dll: Common Controls Library from Microsoft lpk.dll: Language Pack from Microsoft
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> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw445/LWUG/html/lwuser-306.htm > > I think you didn't read that yet :) Actually, as a memory idiot, I had read it a few times before I posted to lisp-hug again. I did not take #x20000000 seriously because I'm using LWW 4.3.7, that doc is for 4.4.5, and I only saw the LWW process with a base address very different from #x20000000. > The LispWorks process you see in Process Explorer is the C stub, but > the Lisp heap itself is mapped at #x20000000. Therefore it has this > amount of memory to grow in: > > (- #x5D090000 #x20000000) > > which is about 976.6MB Thanks a lot for the explanation. It makes sense to me now. Is rebase from MS SDK the only way to move those pesky DLL's between #x5000000 and #x7000000 to places above #x7000000? Best wishes, -cph
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davef@lispworks.com writes: > > Is rebase from MS SDK the only way to move those pesky DLL's between > > #x5000000 and #x7000000 to places above #x7000000? > > A quick web search just now did not find any obvious alternative. Thanks a lot for taking time to look for an answer for me. Best wishes, -cph, looking forward to the LispWorks 5.0 (especially the AMD64 port)