Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> well, if its temporary, then its released.
Except for the nasty effect that the temporary memory usage sometimes is
in the reange of several hundred of MB...
> We can return memory in chunks
> to the system. Probability that every chunk gets locked by few longliving
> items is there, but should be pretty small because of first-fit approach.
> Also, when chunks are large enough to justify mmap, such bursts would not
> bang holes into heap.
True, and malloc will automatically do this for us without forcing us to
do chunked allocation if we increase the membuf block size somewhat..
/Henrik
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