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Re: [Boost-users] [Interprocess] Page default
by Kelly, Dan 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

To elaborate on Ion's remarks, ALL virtual memory in user space in windows is backed by the page file, and ALL file I/O is memory mapped, the only difference being virtual memory is backed by the page file rather than a specific named file in the file system. Your inter process memory is just as likely to be in physical memory as any other data. So most likely this is not the cause of your performance issue, unless memory is so tight that your entire process working set is continually thrashing. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Ion Gaztañaga [igaztanaga(a)gmail.com<mailto:igaztanaga@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 06:48 PM Eastern Standard Time To: boost-users(a)lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Interprocess] Page default El 18/07/2013 14:45, Oodini escribió: > Hello, > > I use Boost.Interprocess on Windows 2003 Server. > > I am experiencing performances troubles. I am trying to understand > what happens, and arrived on Microsoft web pages. > > I seems that on Windows, shared memory is implemented only through > mapped files, and that only a portion of the shared memory is > physically in the RAM (this limited number of pages is called > "working set"). > > The Windows API provides some functions for this working set : > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc441804%28v=vs.85%… > > I would have liked Interprocess wraps the functions > GetProcessMemoryInfo() and SetProcessWorkingSetSize(), so that the > full shared memory is put in RAM. Inteprocess can't do that because it's a portable library and POSIX systems don't know what a working set is. You can perfectly call those functions yourself as you don't need any internal Interprocess data to call them. Although shared memory is never guaranteed to be in RAM, you don't any any guarantee with your "process memory" (if memory pressure is detected the OS can swap you heap and/or executable pages to the swap file to free some RAM for other processes). Best, Ion _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users(a)lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users ________________________________ IMPORTANT: The information contained in this email and/or its attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Any review, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination of this message or any attachment by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited. Neither this message nor any attachment is intended as or should be construed as an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument. Neither the sender, his or her employer nor any of their respective affiliates makes any warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of any of the information contained herein or that this message or any of its attachments is free of viruses.

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Compiling Boost 1.54.0 for the iOS simulator (6.1) on OS X 10.8.4
by Dan Leach 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Hello, I am new to the Boost mailing list so please let me know if this is not the appropriate place to discuss my problem. I have successfully managed to compile several of the Boost libraries (regex, filesystem, thread) and create a framework for use with OS X, iOS, and the iOS simulator using this script: https://github.com/wuhao5/boost/blob/188e905626dbd522f65950102ed0c8ce77cb28… on Peter Goodliffe's work here: http://goodliffe.blogspot.com/2010/09/building-boost-framework-for-ios-ipho… Boost 1.53.0 using clang and linking against libc++. The script fails when compiling for the iOS simulator with Boost 1.54.0 with the following error:/bin/sh: line 1: -ftemplate-depth-128: command not found. I did quite a bit of digging and here is what I know: * In boost.sh, the iOS simulator bjam and compiler options include "-arch i386" * The release notes for Boost 1.54.0 state that "Boost no longer supports the 80386 target CPU" * The Boost 1.53.0 libraries mentioned above appear to compile fine for OS X, iOS, and the iOS simulator using the same script * The Boost 1.54.0 libraries appear to compile fine for OS X and iOS itself using the same script Here is what I think I know: * When passing "-d13" to bjam (to generate debug information), it appears that the variable "CONFIG_COMMAND" is not being set when building for the iOS simulator. For the other configurations, this variable is set to the path to clang and includes the compiler options. For the simulator, it is empty which I believe leads to the error above as when bjam attempts to run the compiler using this variable, it instead runs some appended options which begin with the template depth. Therefore, the CONFIG_COMMAND variable does not appear to be being set properly causing the failure. I do not know why it's not being set as I don't know enough about the Boost build system to sift through the rest of the output generated with the "-d13" flag. I suspect an incompatibility with the "-arch i386" option was introduced with 1.54.0. I've tried changing this to "-arch i486" and "-arch x86_32" but the same problem occurs. Has anyone else had success with this? I'd like to use Boost.Log which is why I'm even attempting this with 1.54. Thanks!

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[Interprocess] Page default
by Oodini 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hello, I use Boost.Interprocess on Windows 2003 Server. I am experiencing performances troubles. I am trying to understand what happens, and arrived on Microsoft web pages. I seems that on Windows, shared memory is implemented only through mapped files, and that only a portion of the shared memory is physically in the RAM (this limited number of pages is called "working set"). The Windows API provides some functions for this working set : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc441804%28v=vs.85%… I would have liked Interprocess wraps the functions GetProcessMemoryInfo() and SetProcessWorkingSetSize(), so that the full shared memory is put in RAM. But for now, I fear it is impossible to have with Interprocess performances similar to the ones provided by the alternative : data in the process memory.

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[boost::gil] Type conversion in Generic Image Library
by Nestor Morales Hernández 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hello, I'm a newbie in this library and I feel a little bit lost. I have the following problem: I currently have an image of the type ` boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t`. I need to pass it to a function (from a code I don't mantain) with this prototype: void function(const boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t& input, const int index, const boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t::view_t &output) I have created an output image by using the following syntax: boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t::view_t output(input._dynamic_cast<boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t::view_t>()); At this point, the compiler accepts the image output as input for the function. However, I need the image back to the `boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t` type. The question is: - Is it a correct way to allocate the image output? - How do I transform it back to the type boost::gil::rgb8c_view_t? Thank you in advance, Néstor

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[iostreams] How can I use the Stream Insertion operator (<<) with a filtering_streambuf?
by Stephen Greenfield 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Partially asked in another question, but so far unanswered: Once I create a filtering_streambuf that is connected to the zlib_compressor() and the output file, how do I then construct an object that can accept data from the Stream Insertion Operator? void CompressUsingFilteringStreambuf() { std::ofstream myFile("hello.z", std::ios_base::out | std::ios_base::binary); boost::iostreams::filtering_streambuf<boost::iostreams::output> out; out.push(boost::iostreams::zlib_compressor()); out.push(myFile); // MY QUESTION: How can I use the "stream insertion" operator (<<) // to go through the filtering_streambuf // and place compressed text into myFile? // HOW DO I CREATE someStream? someStream << "text I want to be compressed and end up in the file..."; myFile.close(); } I have scoured the documentation and the web looking for the answer -- and come up empty. Stephen

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Storing path from A*, using operator::new with boost::multi_array
by Sladey 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I'm trying to use dynamic memory allocation for the first time. I want to allocate memory for a 2 dim dynamic array, to store paths from an A* function. I think the array for the job is boost::multi_array. Problem I have is seem to be able to allocate the memory but i can't change or access any of the elements. #include <iostream> #include "boost/multi_array.hpp" typedef boost::multi_array<int, 2> array_type; int main() { array_type *A = new array_type; A->resize( boost::extents[2][2] ); A[1][1] = 2; std::cout << A[1][1] << std::endl; delete A; return 0; } -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Storing-path-from-A-using-operator-new-w… Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Boost 1.52 with Cygwin and STLPort 5.2.1
by Akanksh Vashisth 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hello, I am trying to compile the following source file using gcc on cygwin and stlport: //-------------------------------------- //cygwin_stl.cpp #include <boost/graph/graphviz.hpp> int main() { return 0; } //-------------------------------------- with the following commandline: //-------------------------------------- $ gcc cygwin_stl.cpp -I /cygdrive/y/STLPORT/STLport-5.2.1/stlport/ -I /cygdrive/y/BOOST/boost_1_52_0/ //-------------------------------------- and this is resulting in an assertion inside boost/xpressive/traits/cpp_regex_tratis.hpp at line 74 as: //-------------------------------------- /cygdrive/y/BOOST/boost_1_52_0/boost/xpressive/traits/cpp_regex_traits.hpp:74:9: error: no matching function for call to ‘assertion_failed(mpl_::failed************ mpl_::assert_relation<(mpl_::assert_::relations)1u, -0x000000069l, 2l>::************)’ //-------------------------------------- Complete error message attached. It appears that the boost header has a conditional compilation for __CYGWIN__ where it asserts a property of the STL std::ctype_base headers that come with cygwin. But as I am using STLport, the assertion does not hold true any longer, but I do have the preprocessor macro __CYGWIN__defined. The code in cpp_regex_traits.hpp is as follows: //-------------------------------------- #ifdef __CYGWIN__ // Work around a gcc warning on cygwin template<> struct mask_cast<std::ctype_base::print> { BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION('\227', ==, std::ctype_base::print); BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(umaskex_t, value = 0227); }; #endif //-------------------------------------- I do have __CYGWIN__ as I am on cygwin, but the STL header is coming from STLport, thus the assertion fails. Is there anyway I can work around this issue? or is it a bug in the boost header where it the test for __CYGWIN__ is insufficient? as a third party STL can be used with cygwin, in which case the assertion is invalid. Thanks

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[FileSystem] detect whether a path has a termi9nating separator
by Sean Farrow 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi all, Firstly I apologise for the lameness of the question-or if I'm missing something really obvious but, is there a function in boost filesystem or on the path object to terminate the path with a separator if one doesn't exist? Help/pointers appreciated. Regards Sean.

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compiling with -std=c++0x option
by Norman Lo 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hello, I am trying to compile a source file that utilizes boost::multi_array. When I try to compile the file with the option -std=c++0x, I get the following error: /apps/boost_1_48/include/boost/multi_array/extent_gen.hpp(62): error: class "boost::detail::multi_array::extent_gen<2UL>" has no suitable copy constructor return extent_gen<NumRanges+1>(*this,range(0,idx)); ^ detected during instantiation of "boost::detail::multi_array::extent_gen<<expression>> boost::detail::multi_array::extent_gen<NumRanges>::operator[](boost::detail::multi_array::index={ptrdiff_t={long}}) [with NumRanges=1UL]" at line 48 of When I compile the same source file without -std=c++0x option, it compiles fine. The compiler I am using: icpc 12.1.0 gcc version: 4.5.0 boost version 1_48 Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Norman

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Deserializing Boost archives using C#
by Robert Fairlie 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I'm currently writing a component in C++ which creates a hierarchy of objects, and serializes them using the Boost serialization library. The serialized archive consists of a root "Document" object, which consists of an STL vector of "Pages". Each page consists of an STL vector of other object types, which themselves have sub-objects. The platform is Microsoft Windows. At some time in the future I want to port the component to C#. One option would be to call the Boost library from C# using interop, but I'd rather try to code it completely in C#, as that would bring a lot of portability benefits. What I'd ideally like to do therefore is in the future to deserialize with C# any files currently being saved with C++. Since Boost provides XML archives I thought I'd look at changing from my current text archives to XML archives. That was straightforward and I'm now saving to XML archives. I'm now starting to look at whether it possible to deserialize an XML archive using C#, possibly by writing a skeleton test component in C#. I'm pretty familiar with C#, but not XML serialization in C#, so I'm not sure yet how to map the XML elements (and class ids ?) to C# objects. In the meantime I was wondering if any one has done anything like this or had any thoughts on whether this approach is feasible? Thanks for any advice, Robert Fairlie -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Deserializing-Boost-archives-using-C-tp4… Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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