Hi Arjan, Thnax for your reply. > second of all, glibc delays freeing of some memory (in the brk() area) > to optimize for cases of frequent malloc/free operations, so that it > doesn't have to go to the kernel all the time (and a free would imply a > cross cpu TLB invalidate which is *expensive*, so batching those up is a > really good thing for performance) As per my observation, in two scenarios that I have tried, in one scenario I am able to see the prints from remove_vm_struct(), but in the other scenario, I don't see any prints from remove_vm_strcut(). My question is, if there is delayed freeing of virtual address space, it should be the same in both the scenarios, but its not the case, and this behavior is consistent for my two scenarios, i.e.. in one I am able to see the kernel prints and in other I am not, respectively. Note: I am using glib-2.0-arm. Regards, Abu. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
