Ben Morrow wrote this message on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 00:28 +0000:
> > 1. Such buffers exist during the entire program's lifetime even if they
> > aren't actively used/needed by the program. With malloc(3) and friends,
> > you're allocating memory dynamically, and you can free(3) when done with
> > it, rather than just having a gigantic portion of memory allocated
> > sitting around potentially doing nothing.
>
> If the 'allocated' memory isn't touched, it will never be paged in. Even
> once it is paged in, if it then goes back to being unused it can be
> paged out to swap (when necessary) and then stay there. (It would be
> nice if there were some way to tell the system 'this memory is dead,
> don't write it out to swap', but I don't think there is.)
madvise(2) w/ MADV_FREE, though there was some discussion on -current
about what these different flags will/should do not too long ago...
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