Re: [DISCUSS] memory allocation method

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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