memory leak in free()

Jason Evans jasone at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 14 20:28:18 UTC 2006


Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:58:46PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>>And any such patch would have to have a knob that defaulted to keeping
>>overcommit on anyway. :-)
> 
> Ha ! Exactly. My patch has such knob :).
> Shameless plug: http://kostikbel.narod.ru/overcommit
> 
> Testing the patch on recent CURRENT, I did notice that jemalloc
> really likes the swap :).

You're saying that jemalloc uses a lot of *reserved* swap space, right? 
  That's different than actually causing a lot of swapping, and 
something that is of no concern, IMO.

Jason


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