Re: Re: [f-cpu] optional SRB

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:53:55PM +0100, whygee@club-internet.fr wrote:

[...]
> O gawd ....
> Then how do they manage the situations where there is a lot
> of fragmentation, or when "garbage collection" must be done ?...

They only use mmap() directly when the requested size exceeds a certain
limit (I guess it was 128 KBytes). Smaller memory chunks are allocated
differently.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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