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| author | Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> | 2003-02-25 10:10:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> | 2003-02-25 10:10:35 +0000 |
| commit | 13c0f77163fb9207bbfba50890fefc89c9eb7acb (patch) | |
| tree | 2891ea1bf17c3ec3eaf4f788e41b5a600e6ede5c /manual | |
| parent | 724fad20ce0906168323ba11bedb4bcbd62f3e9d (diff) | |
* manual/memory.texi (Malloc Tunable Parameters): Clarify
behaviour of M_MMAP_THRESHOLD.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/memory.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index 5427799294..10ae4dee10 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -697,7 +697,8 @@ heap size such that excessive amounts of system calls can be avoided. All chunks larger than this value are allocated outside the normal heap, using the @code{mmap} system call. This way it is guaranteed that the memory for these chunks can be returned to the system on -@code{free}. +@code{free}. Note that requests smaller than this threshold might still +be allocated via @code{mmap}. @item M_MMAP_MAX The maximum number of chunks to allocate with @code{mmap}. Setting this to zero disables all use of @code{mmap}. |