On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:06:31PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :I want to see at least a basic measurements first. This is very likely
> :to increase both the runtime and memory foot print of programs and the
> :argument "OpenBSD did it" is not a good justification for both.
> :
> :Joerg
> 
>     Well, you are welcome to make such measurements but I don't see anything
>     in the patch that would increase memory footprints, since the old code
>     was sbrk()ing memory in multiples of PAGE_SIZE and the new code 
>     effectively does the same thing, just with mmap() instead of sbrk().

You mean like the guard pages?

Joerg

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