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bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed
From: |
Konstantin Kharlamov |
Subject: |
bug#45200: [PATCH] Force Glibc to free the memory freed |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:28:01 +0300 |
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Evolution 3.38.3 |
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 17:17 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Thanks, but is it really a good idea to call malloc_trim each time we
> > free some chunk of memory?
>
> malloc_trim() is very expensive relative to free(), partly because of
> what it needs to do, and partly because it flushes the fastbins cache.
> If you call it every, say, 1000 iterations of free, that might suffice.
> Or perhaps after each GC run.
(un-ccing Glibc maintainers as this question is Emacs-specific)
After a GC run, would that be at the end of `garbage_collect` function as Stefan
mentioned?