Re: Some questions about linux kernel.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 19:58:50 EST


> Malloc(), as stated before, just sets a new break address when it
> runs out of heap. It keeps track of the heap, but not very carefully.

Not any more. Modern mallocs are a lot smarter. They also use mmap for
their backing store

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Mar 23 2000 - 21:00:31 EST