I’ve been seeing problems recently with fragmented virtual address space. During the lifetime of a process, bits and pieces of memory are allocated throughout the 2GB 32-bit address space to such an extent that large contiguous blocks of free space are no longer available. If anything subsequently requires a large block of memory (like, for [...]
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Finding the largest free block of address space
Posted in Software Development, WinDbg, Windows Also tagged c++, perfmon, private bytes, win32, WinDbg 2 Comments
Diagnosing out of memory errors with VMMap – Part 2
(I had problems with WordPress choking on this long post, so I’ve split it into 2 parts. The first part is here. This is the second part).
