C++ :: Size Of Process Grows Larger For Lots Of Small Memory Allocations
Jun 21, 2013
Why the size of a process grows larger in size for lots of small memory allocations. For example, say I have this struct, which is 16 bytes (for a 32 bit build):
Code:
struct Person {
int iID;
int iAge;
char * pForeName;
char * pSurName;
};
If I allocate memory like this:
Code:
LPBYTE lpB = new BYTE[sizeof(Person) * 1000000];
Then my process grows to 16,48KB in size, which is what I expected. However if I allocate memory like this:
Code:
Person * lpPerson;
for(int i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i)
lpPerson = new Person;
Then the process grows to 78,656KB, which I don't understand.
Additionally, I was surprised to find a vector acts more similarly to the first example. This code:
Code:
Person temp = { 0 };
std::vector<Person> people;
for(int i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i)
people.push_back(temp);
Only increases the process memory to 16,892.
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Jul 11, 2013
I was wondering why, in C, the sizeof of a struct is larger than the the sum of all the sizeofs of it's members. It only seems to be by a few bytes, but as a bit of a perfectionist I fine this a bit annoying.
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Mar 24, 2013
I am having difficulty with arrays because of the limitation of the size of the arrays that I can declare. I need sizes that are very large and windows or C# does not allow me to create bigger than the following for example:
public static int[] gaPoints = new int[20000000000000000000 + 1];
I get an error message saying that "integral size is too large".
I need to be able to declare sizes that are even much larger than the abovementioned size.
How can I circumvent this problem?
Do I have to use something other than arrays?
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May 30, 2012
I am trying to understand what techiques can be used to sort really huge files (larger than available memory). I did some googling and came across one technique.
1. Are there any better ways to get this done?
2. Is there some tweaking that can be done to make this itself better?
Large enough so that you get a lot of records, but small enough such that it will comfortably fit into memory
3. How do you decide on this value? Consider, memory is 4 GB and currently about 2GB is consumed, and file to sort is 10GB in size. (Consumed memory could of course change dynamically during execution - consumed more/less by other apps.)
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Mar 8, 2013
I am looking for a way to run a process form memory, without having any executable. The application will be kept inside a resource and will be extracted during run time. It should be then started as a new process. I couldn't find a solution that works also on x64
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Apr 8, 2014
Writing bytes to external process to remove a detour that the program does
this is what im trying it fails
HANDLE Handle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, false, ProcessId);
BYTE btLdrLoadDll[] = { 0x8B, 0xFF, 0x55, 0x8B, 0xEC };
if (!WriteProcessMemory(Handle, (BYTE*)((DWORD)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("ntdll.dll"), "LdrLoadDll")), &btLdrLoadDll, sizeof(btLdrLoadDll), NULL)) {
CloseHandle(Handle);
std::cout << "
Failed to write Bytes to memory. Press enter to exit.";
[Code] ....
an also using the right address like this fails
WriteProcessMemory(Handle, (BYTE*)0x77C64F9F, &btLdrLoadDll, sizeof(btLdrLoadDll), NULL)
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Nov 11, 2014
I have an application that reads a process and return values from it. The problem it works fine with small processes but i have some processes that are about 1GB or even 2GB and when i try to read such big processes the application crashes. I'm trying to find a way to read the process memory in chunks of maximum 10 MB. The read code looks like:
Code:
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, entry.th32ProcessID);
unsigned char *p = NULL;
MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION info;
for (p = NULL; VirtualQueryEx(hProcess, p, &info, sizeof(info)) == sizeof(info); p += info.RegionSize)
[Code] ....
This reads the info.regionsize which can be as large as 100 MB. Is there any way to read it in chunks ?
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Apr 9, 2014
I had a question about memory allocation/how iterators work for a std::vector<foo> of a user defined class 'foo'. Say foo contains variables of variable size, so that each member of the std::vector<foo> does not require the same amount of memory space.
Does c++ allocate the same amount of memory for each element, equal to the amount of memory required for the largest element? Or does it use some sort of array of pointers pointing to the location of each element in the vector to make the iterator work? Or does it use some other method? I am wondering because I wrote a code which reads data from a binary files and stores most of it in std::vectors.
The code seems to be using significantly more memory than the sum of the size of all the binary files, and I am using vectors made up of the datatype within the binary files (float). So I was wondering if internally the code was allocating space for each vector element which is the size of the largest element as a way to handle indexing/iterators. I ran my code through a memory leak checker and it found no errors.
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I have class that have member variables which is also a class object that contains member variables which is also a class... so on and so on... like this
Code:
class Device
{
public:
Device();
[Code]...
When i create a device object, i want to be able to initialize all its member variables, such _data, _value, but since Data has also a set of members need to be initialized, i also need to pass parameter like Record, Type, Test etc to Device constructor, all down to the primitives level of member variables of all its embedded classes object... the top level class constructor may need a very very long list of parameters....depending on the number of member variables each embedded class contains! I know i can break down the initialization process, but i prefer to do a one line initialization, without much objects copying etc... and i use scoped pointer where it need to be initialized just once. Is it common to code a constructor with long list of parameters??
Code:
Device::Device(double deviceValue, int countPlayers, int NumRecord, int DataType, double dataTest)
{
_data = QScopedPointer<Data> (new Data(NumRecord, countPlayers, dataType, dataTest));
_value = deviceValue;
}
[Code].....
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Dynamic memory allocation in array in c programming. I am trying to make the user to choose the size of array they want to engage in the game.
However, i have remove the global variable which contribute the error to my code previously. Now I assigned all the arr individually but not using the global variable. However, i still not get the desired board i want. i still keep getting 9x9 array board.
And i also need limit the board size only from 4 to 9. And how do i do that.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
[Code] .....
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I have a program which call only one time malloc at the start of the program. When running, I see with 'process-explorer.exe' that memory is growing in little steps. Is this normal? why?
Using Windows 7
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If I change 1000 to 5, I still get 8. If I change it to 0, I get 8... If I change it to -1, I get 8. If I change int *a to double *a, I get 8. If I take away the & symbol, I get 8. If I use *& instead, I get 8.
Why? I want it to output 1000. If I change that to 500, I want it to output 500.
int *a;
a = malloc(1000 * sizeof(int));
int j = sizeof(&a);
printf("%d", j);
I want to build my skills where I can allocate, inspect and change memory sizes.
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I want to use it such that:
x<< "hello" << endl;
x<< "mike" << endl;
x<< "how " << endl;
x<< "are" << endl;
x<< "you" << endl;
cout << x;
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mike
how
are
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Mar 12, 2014
How to write a simple function that will take 3 ints and find the sum of the higher 2? This is what i got so far:
int findsum(int a,int b,int c)// will find the highest int and return it to our main program {
int max,max2;// this sets our local variable max
// next we will find the larger of our first 2 variables
if( a>=b)
{ max=a;
[Code] ....
How to get the second highest number and add it to max
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On compilation the following program does not give any error and when i run this program then sometimes it gives the segmentation fault. Specially with the larger values. I made sure that the values i inputted are not crossing any range of data types i used. I cannot get what is making my code to give segmentation fault error.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
[Code] ....
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Code:
char buffer1[10];
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sprintf(buffer1, "with %s", buffer2);
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I am trying to add a small function to allow me to pause the game I am making. I measure the time elapsed using the following algorithm:
1. USE ""clock_t begin=clock();"" FOR SYSTEM TIME OF GAME BEGINNING.
2. USE ""cout<<(clock()-begin)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;"" TO DISPLAY TIME ELAPSED IN SECONDS.
Now, if I want to pause, I would want to subtract the 'paused' time from the total time elapsed.Say,
clock_t pause, resume;
{
pause=clock();
.
.
.
resume=clock();
}
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This, though is what I want, works only once(I can pause only once). I can use arrays of resume and pause, but it would still limit the number of times I can pause.
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1. When opened in app mode seekp doesn't work.
2. When opened normally previous written data is erased.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
[Code]....
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Is there another language I should look at the would allow me to convert my program quicker or easier?
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Quick break down.
Reads file
Changes file contents based on search string,
saves and closes file
and kills a windows service
exits
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here is the link to question: [URL] ....
below is my code:
friendship relations #48.cppfriendship relations #48.cpp
I have some question in regards to the b part 2. My code is working fine when the number of input is low. However when I input more larger input data to my program it start to hangs.
Here is the input: [URL] ....
Output: [URL] ....
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Apr 19, 2013
I added this snippet of code to a larger project I use to read some numbers in from a file, but for some reason I'm getting a segmentation fault.
Code:
printf("starting main
");
FILE *cutoffs;
double cut1=0, cut2=0, cut3=0;
printf("trying to open file
The cutoffs.in file looks something like
Code: 3.475 3.875 4.025
I ran the gdb debugger, so I know it is occurring at that fscanf; however, it doesn't give any other details (to be honest I don't have much experience with debuggers :x) ..The values are being put into an array. Before I just had numbers initialized in the array by hand, but need to have 20 different runs of this code with different numbers each time...
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The below code is just the divde part.
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[Code] .....
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