Re: limit for # of items created with "new" ?

["Hans Horn" <hannes at 2horns dot com>]

Ooops,

I just realized that the number of objects I've allocated is about
1,600,000, NOT 160,000!
But still, each object (nodes of a singly linked list) weighs only 8 byte.

H.

"Hans Horn" <hannes@2horns.com> wrote in message
amqju4$pm2$1@main.gmane.org">news:amqju4$pm2$1@main.gmane.org...
> List,
>
> I am experiencing a problem when I need to allocate a large number of
small
> objects with new. (cygwin 1.3.12.4, gcc 3.2.1). Up to about 160 000
objects
> I'm doing fine, but above the process receives a sigterm and croaks.
>
> On occasion, even the entire bash shell becomes corrupt and needs to be
shut
> down.
> When this happens, the bash shell complains :
>
> *** mount version mismatch detected - 0xA820/0x1B.
> You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
> Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
> and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version
> *should*
> reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
> installed the cygwin distribution.
>
> Is there a maximum numbers of "new-allocatable" objects? If yes, is this
> number configurable?
>
> thx a lot,
> Hans
>
> P.s. Btw, I'm running Win2k with 512 MByte memory. When I watch the
process
> die in task manager, the total memory load is at about 450 MByte.
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