Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation

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Re: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 31, 2006 at 12:44 UTC
Are you (attempting to) writing a device driver in Perl? If so, you're probably into a world of grief If not, why do you want to use non-paged memory from an application? Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^2: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2006 at 13:09 UTC
This is meant to test the allocation. We have a few kernal leaks and want to detect the problem via an SNMP trap. I need to test that the trap will fire. So I need to run a program that will eat up a ton of non-paged windows memory to force the trap. I would rather not purchase a C compiler to run the test ... so I want to see if a perl module has already incorporated this OS specific function. Make sense?	[reply]
Re^3: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 31, 2006 at 13:18 UTC
Okay, but you are going to be out of luck. According to the docs, both those apis need to be called from code running at an IRQ level: `Callers of ExAllocatePoolWithQuotaTag must be running at IRQL <= APC_L +EVEL. Callers of AllocateCommonBuffer must be running at IRQL = PASSIVE_LEVE +L.` [download] If you knew (or search) to locate the dll they are exported from, the you could attempt to call them using Win32::API, but unless you know a way to cause your Perl script to be called by the kernel as an IRQ handler, it isn't going to to work. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2006 at 14:29 UTC
Re^5: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:05 UTC
Re: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by flake (Initiate) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:08 UTC
Umm, you can download many C or C++ compilers gratis. Even MS its self makes a free version of Visual C++ 2005 (which will compile C code also) though obviously you would not be getting source code there	[reply]
Re^2: Windows Non-Paged Pool Memory Allocation by RMGir (Prior) on Oct 31, 2006 at 18:06 UTC