Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:12:35 +0530 | From | "Rick Brown" <> | Subject | Re: [DISCUSS] memory allocation method |
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On 1/15/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <raziebe@gmail.com> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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