At Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:34:21 -0600, Sergey Plis wrote: > Thanks! I see the line in the documentation: > Occasionally, |free| can actually return memory to the operating system > and make the process smaller. > > Do you know if I can force the occasional part to happen always? > Actually, only then, when I am sure that I do not need this memory > anymore and want to prevent swapping?
Maybe the source to malloc in the GNU C Library can help you. As I think you found, using mmap() is another way to access large amounts of memory. -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd, Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
