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From: "Rick Brown" <rick.brown.3@gmail.com>
To: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <raziebe@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] memory allocation method
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:12:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7783925d0701190342j7e0e89a0ib0e9a7278887355f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d96567b0701150536j4c3c50abndec5155ddb53d4a1@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/15/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <raziebe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a process who allocates as much as possible of RAM
> in 4 G ram 32bit machine. This buffer is never released.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is it better allocates with many 1MB buffers or allocate it in with
> one a big valloc ?
ONe BIG vmalloc has huge, huge chances of failure.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-19 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-15 13:36 Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-01-19 10:41 ` Helge Hafting
2007-01-19 11:42 ` Rick Brown [this message]
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