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

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

We tested it on our Plastic SCM load tests and it worked as expected.


pablo


www.plasticscm.com


Dick Porter wrote:
> 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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