[racket-dev] call-with-limits memory bound isn't actually bounding memory usage

From: David Vanderson (david.vanderson at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 9 13:50:13 EDT 2013

Just to make sure, is the memory being allocated reachable from outside 
the sandbox?

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/ismm04-addendum.txt

On 09/09/2013 01:29 PM, J. Ian Johnson wrote:
> I don't use the gui framework at all. This is all just pounding on global hash-tables and vectors. Or are you talking about the sandbox queuing up callbacks?
> -Ian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robby Findler" <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> To: "J. Ian Johnson" <ianj at ccs.neu.edu>
> Cc: "dev" <dev at racket-lang.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 1:16:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [racket-dev] call-with-limits memory bound isn't actually bounding memory usage
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> The framework will, sometimes do stuff that queues callbacks and, depending on how you've set up other things, the code running there might escape from the limit. Did you try putting the eventspace under the limit too?
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> Robby
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, J. Ian Johnson < ianj at ccs.neu.edu > wrote:
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> I'm running my analysis benchmarks in the context of (with-limits (* 30 60) 2048 <run-analysis>), and it's been good at killing the process when the run should time out, but now I have an instantiation of the framework that just gobbles up 15GiB of memory without getting killed. What might be going on here?
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> Running 5.90.0.9
> -Ian
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