On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:26 +0530, Abu M. Muttalib wrote: > 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. I'm sorry but you're not providing enough information for me to understand your follow-on question. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven > -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
