Re: [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation - clean rev

Andrew Morton
2005-05-19T22:54:41Z

Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> wrote:
>
> Clearly one has to weight the performance issues against the memory
> efficiency but since we demonstratibly throw away 25% (or 1GB) of the
> available address space in the various accumulated holes a long
> running application can generate

That sounds pretty bad.

> I hope that for the time being we can
> stick with my first solution,

I'm inclined to do this.

> preferably extended by your munmap fix?

And this, if someone has a patch?