Clarify M_MMAP_THRESHOLD

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Feb 25 10:00:00 GMT 2003


Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

|> We got a little bit confused on the purpose of M_MMAP_THRESHOLD and I
|> think it should be explained better in the manual.
|> 
|> Ok to commit the appended patch?
|> Andreas
|> 
|> 2003-02-24  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>
|> 
|> 	* manual/memory.texi (Malloc Tunable Parameters): Clarify
|> 	behaviour of M_MMAP_THRESHOLD.
|> 
|> ============================================================
|> Index: manual/memory.texi
|> --- manual/memory.texi	22 Jul 2002 00:57:09 -0000	1.76
|> +++ manual/memory.texi	25 Feb 2003 05:26:43 -0000
|> @@ -697,7 +697,8 @@ heap size such that excessive amounts of
|>  All chunks larger than this value are allocated outside the normal
|>  heap, using the @code{mmap} system call.  This way it is guaranteed
|>  that the memory for these chunks can be returned to the system on
|> -@code{free}.
|> +@code{free}.  Note that requests smaller than this threshold might still
|> +bet allocated via @code{mmap}.
    ^^^
Typo.

Andreas.

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