memory-problems on win32

Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I'm encountering severe memory problems on win32. 
> 
> I've attached the results of running bjam (current
anon CVS HEAD) from the 
> same directory on linux and win32 with -d+10.
> The linux run eats up 272 Mb.
> The correspondung win32 run needs roughly 1.4 GB of
memory (Note the overflow 
> in the [TOTAL] column at the end of the memory dump.
> A quick scan of the win32 dump shows:
> 
> 730730707   FILE_DIRSCAN 
> 498895064   classc-scanner.process
> 32252272     MAIN_MAKE
> 
> which seems odd to me.
> The corresponding linux numbers are _much_ smaller.
> 
> This prevents me from building my applications on
Win32. 
> We have a large source tree (8000+ files) so it is a
massive test.
> But the excessive memory usage on Win32 looks like a
bug to me.
> 
> Any ideas ?

I can't think of why there would be such a huge difference
:-( And tests 
I've done before, on the large perf tests, don't show such
a difference.


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