On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Bradley C. Kuszmaul <brad...@mit.edu> wrote: > When writing about malloc, I often need a verb to describe what > madvise(...,MADV_DONTNEED) does on linux (and what MADV_FREE does on BSD). > > Is "purge" the right verb? Is "purge" used for other things in the > mallocation world? > > Any help to make my writing clearer would be appreciated!
When trying to be precise, I refer to it as "unused dirty page purging", "purge unused dirty pages", etc.. For short I use "purging", "purge", etc.. jemalloc doesn't use the term, "purge" for anything else, so it's unambiguous. Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ jemalloc-discuss mailing list jemalloc-discuss@canonware.com http://www.canonware.com/mailman/listinfo/jemalloc-discuss
