Something is broken in repack

David Kastrup dak@gnu.org
Wed Dec 12 12:02:00 GMT 2007


Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Well... This is weird.
>
> It seems that memory fragmentation is really really killing us here.  
> The fact that the Google allocator did manage to waste quite less memory 
> is a good indicator already.

Maybe an malloc/free/mmap wrapper that records the requested sizes and
alloc/free order and dumps them to file so that one can make a compact
git-free standalone test case for the glibc maintainers might be a good
thing.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum



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