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Emulator Issues #10926

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Games crash on OpenBSD/amd64 with error "Failed to map enough memory space: Can't allocate memory"

Added by johndoe over 6 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
degasus
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Issue type:
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Relates to usability:
No
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No
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Description

This is due to MemArena::FindMemoryBase trying to mmap() 0x400000000 bytes (16 GiB) of memory, which overshoots my physical memory by quite a bit. Reducing it to an amount actually available to the OS (~7 GiB) works, though I've only lightly tested it on one game (Rhythm Heaven Fever).

The immediate solution would thus be lowering the mmap'd amount or making it a compile-time option, but admittedly that isn't very elegant.

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Updated by JMC4789 over 6 years ago

  • Assignee set to degasus

Is FreeBSD still a supported case?

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Updated by degasus about 5 years ago

Indeed, we could lower it easily to 8 GB. But I don't see the point about doing so.

The real point is: "which overshoots my physical memory by quite a bit". This is a big misunderstanding of the mmap call. We don't want to allocate this amount of physical memory, we just want to allocate virtual memory.

So the real bug here is about why does the map fail on your OS?

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