Yariv Sadan wrote:

> I wonder if memcached uses a more
> clever strategy such as memory pools.

It uses slabs, a cute and dense memory management technique popularised
by the Solaris kernel (and used in Linux, too).

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bonwick94slab.html

(Don't read the Wikipedia page about slabs; it's awful.)

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