[Swarm-Support] Re: [Swarm-Modelling] xmalloc problem

[Steve Railsback]

José Antonio Pascual Ruano wrote:

> Hello dear swarmers,
>
>
> I`m running a simulation with JavaSwarm but I have a persistent problem.
>
> Every time the simulation reaches around 80000 cycles the system crashes
>
> The error that I get is:
>
> /src/Swarm/swarm/src/misc/xmalloc.c:95 xmalloc

I posted a question about this problem several months ago because we 
also encountered this problem. The same error occurs when you create 
lots of agents instead of running for a long time. The problem does not 
occur running the same code in Linux.

I think there is deep down in Windows a limit on how many times a 
process can access another block of memory- even if the process frees 
memory at the same rate it accesses it. In fact, I  think I saw a 
Windows parameter that controls this limit but stupidly did not write 
down where it was. Perhaps someone who really knows Windows can tell us.

Steve R.

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