Re: Fwd: 8.0 Beta3 worked, RC1 didn't!

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> > Tom,
> > why is DC000000 so low? That's still 10Mb into the process, right? Granted, it's not high, but it's not *that* low.
(Asimple test program with all parameters at default get it's first address allocated at 003D2438 for me. A freshly
MapViewOfFile()dmemory ends up at 003f0000. If I go for a larger test block (such as 50Mb), the mapped memory is moved
upto 004d0000. I get very simlar results on XP and 2003. 
>
> The question is not whether it's "low", it's whether there's any
> daylight between the end of memory in a postmaster/backend image and
> where the shmem segment gets placed.
>
> On Unix, shmat() is supposed to leave a lot of room between the data
> break address and where it puts shmem, so that malloc still has room to
> play in.  I suspect that Windows is willing to malloc() memory above the
> shmem segment and so thinks that it doesn't need to leave any daylight
> there, other than rounding off to a page boundary for hardware reasons.
> If the backend process malloc's a bit more space than the postmaster did
> before trying to attach, we got trouble.
>
> It's not clear to me exactly *why* the backend would allocate any more
> space than the postmaster did, but that's my working hypothesis at the
> moment.

What if we malloc 100k just before we create the postmaster segment and
then free it and see if that fixes the postgres.exe problem?

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