[Boost-build] [v2] memory-problems on win32

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-22 09:11:26

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   class_at_c-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 ?

Please drop me a note if you need more test data.

Yours,

Jürgen

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