Re: [DISCUSS] memory allocation method

[Rick Brown]

On 1/15/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <raziebe@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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