> Actually, malloc(3) can use madvise(2) to notify the kernel that
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> arbitrary pages in the arena are unused and can be discarded.  The
> current implementation will do so if the H option is specified.

Ah, interesting. I was not aware of that.

However, in this context it will likely only help partially since you still=
=20
need a full page to be free (and with a lot of programs many allocations wi=
ll=20
be significantly smaller than that, and I have to assume no real-life mallo=
c=20
will align all allocations to pages, or the overhead would be extreme).

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/ Peter Schuller

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