Controlling the garbage collector (GC) at RT?

Wed Feb 16 23:42:00 GMT 2005

Hi Hans,
>>>It would indeed be interesting to know why the Linux kernel 
 >>>kills the application rather than returning failure.
>>Sure, but how to do that? Any guidelines?
> What do you see on the console? Anything in the system log? Does
> strace tell you anything?
Below is the last part of "strace -f -F -i -v". It doesn't really look 
like there's anything of value?
// Martin
[pid 75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x12d15000) = 0x12d15000
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x12d25000) = 0x12d25000
[pid 75] [0f81126c] getpid() = 75
[pid 75] [0f799444] kill(77, SIGPWR <unfinished ...>
[pid 76] [0f840e2c] <... poll resumed> [{fd=3, events=POLLIN, 
revents=POLLIN}
], 1, 2000) = 1
[pid 75] [0f799444] <... kill resumed> ) = 0
[pid 76] [0f81127c] getppid() = 75
[pid 76] [0f833548] read(3, 
"20円7円/234円0円0円0円4円17円374円0ドル20円7円/240円$0円0円B17円3円
72j(177円"..., 148) = 148
[pid 76] [0f840e2c] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid 75] [0f799444] kill(77, SIGXCPU) = 0
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x13525000) = 0x13525000
[pid 75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x13535000) = 0x13535000
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x13545000) = 0x13545000
[pid 75] [0f839834] brk(0x13d45000) = 0x13d45000
[pid 75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid 76] [0f840e2c] <... poll resumed> [{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 
2000) = 0
[pid 76] [0f840e2c] --- SIGTERM (Terminated) ---
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