I've a small program (an in-mem database of a logging system) that allocates
a lot of pointers. It gets into trouble on D6/D7 when I reach 9-10 million
allocations.
Somebody else wrote a unit test (that scales down the allocations to simple
^integers), and confirmed the problem still exists. The program only uses
about 250MB (of 1024MB + 1024MB swap) available before it throws out of
memory error.
Note that the original program allocates nearly 2GB, so it isn't
that the 250MB is a fixed limit, it seems more that the number of
allocations is fixed, but not entirely constant.
What is going on here? Is the heapmanager limiting the number of
allocations somehow?
