On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Sascha Schumann wrote:

|     When you closely monitor an application's memory usage, you
|     will only rarely notice an actual decrease.  Because of
|     allocation patterns, memory is quickly fragmented, so that it
|     is often impossible to free whole pages (operating systems
|     usually account for nothing less).

It would be interesting to see what the effect of MT-hot memory allocator
libraries (such as Solaris's libmtmalloc and the 3rd part Horde) have when
linked in with APR. One of the specific aims of these types of allocators
is to minimize the amount of fragmentation in memory

/dale

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