Fix a problem in test script malloc5.test. (CVS 4455)

FossilOrigin-Name: 028ec36c71d6ac43c8f1cda77578d844c6955f68

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Add\sautomatic\srecovery\sfrom\sthe\spager\s"error-state".\sAlso\sadd\sa\snew\serror\scode\s-\sSQLITE_IOERR_NOMEM.\s(CVS\s4454)
+C Fix\sa\sproblem\sin\stest\sscript\smalloc5.test.\s(CVS\s4455)
-D 2007-10-03T08:46:44
+D 2007-10-03T09:43:55
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 F README 9c4e2d6706bdcc3efdd773ce752a8cdab4f90028
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ F test/malloc.test 17366a4f76e7aac14cd709e8209ef840cd497410
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-F test/malloc5.test b2fd56b369dd5884ad88edfaef41304393809125
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 F test/malloc7.test 0d71bb6520b99934b551fa36a9c591404aeaad61
 F test/malloc8.test addc27d907fec1af429551b95c72caa47fce2974
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-R e48ace1bd2100159c32ec15d9bfa3f76
+R ab778c4ccea4851cfb45b8ff8e4ecac9
 U danielk1977
-Z d1e46257f1f89b59b016148eed84362d
+Z 0b2e370c486d9ff351342955af404557

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test/malloc5.test

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # This file contains test cases focused on the two memory-management APIs, 
 # sqlite3_soft_heap_limit() and sqlite3_release_memory().
 #
-# $Id: malloc5.test,v 1.16 2007/09/03 16:12:10 drh Exp $
+# $Id: malloc5.test,v 1.17 2007/10/03 09:43:55 danielk1977 Exp $
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # NOTES ON EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR
@@ -214,7 +214,23 @@ do_test malloc5-4.2 {
   execsql {COMMIT;}
   set nMaxBytes [sqlite3_memory_highwater 1]
   puts -nonewline " (Highwater mark: $nMaxBytes) "
-  expr $nMaxBytes <= 100000
+
+  # We used to test ($nMaxBytes<100000), because the soft-heap-limit is
+  # 100000 bytes. But if an allocation that will exceed the 
+  # soft-heap-limit is requested from within the only pager instance in 
+  # the system, then there is no way to free memory and the limit has to 
+  # be exceeded. An exception is memory allocated to store actual page
+  # data (the code contains a special case for this).
+  #
+  # This is not a problem because all allocations apart from those
+  # used to store cached page data are both small and transient.
+  #
+  # Summary: the actual high-water mark for memory usage may be slightly 
+  # higher than the soft-heap-limit. The specific allocations that cause
+  # the problem are the calls to sqlite3_malloc() inserted into selected
+  # sqlite3OsXXX() functions in test builds.
+  #
+  expr $nMaxBytes <= 100100
 } {1}
 do_test malloc5-4.3 {
   # Check that the content of table abc is at least roughly as expected.