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Re: malloc() wastes 50%...

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: John Moser <john dot r dot moser at gmail dot com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:41:02 -0400
Subject: Re: malloc() wastes 50%...
References: <1157134821.6024.9.camel@localhost>

On Friday 01 September 2006 14:20, John Moser wrote:
> A little probing and I find that the memory allocator in glibc seems to
> be wasting ... a lot of memory.

are you looking at just virtual memory ?  overcommitting with virutal memory 
isnt that big of a deal, what you should worry about is wasting of actual 
memory (the RSS value) and i doubt that's glibc's fault
-mike

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