[Mono-dev] [PATCH] Cause libgc to return some unused memory to the system

[Dick Porter]

Hi all

Attached is a patch to libgc that will allow it to actually unmap memory
when USE_MUNMAP is defined.  Currently, the unmap code just sets the
mmap flags on a region to 'no access'.  The patch unlinks blocks from
the gc free list larger than a defined min size (currently 4k bytes),
that haven't been used for several collections, and unmaps the memory.

It may or may not fix https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495486
- the reporter forgot to attach his test case.

Comments?

- Dick

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