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

From: J. Ian Johnson (ianj at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 9 13:29:27 EDT 2013

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


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? 

Robby 



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, J. Ian Johnson < ianj at ccs.neu.edu > wrote: 


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? 

Running 5.90.0.9 
-Ian 
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