> > Meanwhile, one of the application developers here bumped into a way to
> > reproduce what looks like the same memory alloc problem (exactly the same
> > point in exactly the same trigger) using our application software
> > only,
>
> Oh good. Can you construct a self-contained test case then?
Will try to do just that when the rest won't work.
> > All were located at sinval.c:888
>
> This is the expected case. The failure in CopySnapshot has got to
> indicate that somebody set one or the other field to some bizarrely
> large value, though. I take it you didn't run the watchpointed backend
> far enough to get the memory-alloc error?
Oh, but I did.....
All the breaks are at sinval.c:888 and at some point the memory-alloc simply
occurs. Do you mean you want a backtrace of the last break at line 888 just
before the error ?
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Best,
Frank.