GNU bug report logs - #22526
25.0.90; Crash starting gnus

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Message #101 received at 22526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#22526: 25.0.90; Crash starting gnus
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:34:14 +0200

> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:04:39 +0100
> Cc: andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com, 22526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Also vmmap reports a 4k block committed at 0x1F0000. If I ask vmmap to display free/unusable blocks,
> it reports 0x1F1000 as unusable, size 60k and committed 60k. The problem is that the first block has been 
> allocated with 4k, so the next 60k are unusable. We should allocate by block by allocation granularity 
> as reported by GetSystemInfo().

Actually... are you saying this explains Andrew's problem in some way?
I cannot see how, because in that case we requested less than 1 page
in the next region, so if even 4KB (one page) was available there, the
call to VirtualAlloc to commit that chunk should have succeeded.  No?

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