Hi all,
I explain quickly my problem, even if I’ve already exposed it previously in another post.
I want to build a float* of size 19200x2048.
So, I do the following :
dist_alloc = cudaMallocPitch( (void **) &dist_dev, &dist_pitch, 2048*sizeof(float), 19200);
I have a 8800GTX (768MB DDR3).
My matrix has a memory sizeof 2048x19200x4 = 157286400 Bytes = 157MB.
The free memory is 747335680 Bytes (I use cuMemGetInfo).
The problem is that I call my program many times and there is an allocation problem.
I know that I properly free my memory (because the free memory is the same in the beginning and on the end of the program). I manage the error by stoping the program is the allocation failed. So I print all the useful informations to understand my mistake but I don’t understand what is the problem :
ERROR MEMORY ALLOCATION : unknown error
Variable : dist_dev
Free memory : 747335680
Whished allocated memory : 157286400
The error message (provided by cudaGetErrorString) is “unknown error”.
Somebody tellsme that find X MB of linear memory is not the same of finding X MB of memory and I agree with that. But, in my case,with the first iterations, the memory required is found and after a couple of iterations, even if the free memory is the same, the memory allocation problem appears.
Maybe I could use cuMemAllocPitch but I think that the problem will be the same…