On Feb 10, 2008 01:46 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:Having such notification handled by glibc to free up unused malloc (or any heap allocations) would be very useful, because even if a program does "free" there is no guarantee the memory is returned to the kernel. I think that having a generic reservation framework is too complex, but hiding the details of /dev/mem_notify from applications is desirable. A simple wrapper (possibly part of glibc) to return the poll fd, or set up the signal is enough. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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