On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:09:29PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Jerry, please read what I actually wrote instead of running off on tangents.
> Thank you.

Yeah, except the trouble is what you said was vague, and as far as I
can tell, didn't make any sense:

On 09/14/2010 12:00 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I disagree with this on modern Linux (and BSD) kernels. Let's
>> remove VM from the discussion for a second. Most applications use
>> the malloc(3)
>>     
> Let's not, because I'm specifically thinking of Java's garbage
> collection as a common example.

What does that have to do with Virtual Memory (VM)?

In any event, as Jerry pointed out, application memory leaks don't
require a reboot to fix; they just require restarting the application.
That will also solve any real or imagined performance degredation
caused by memory fragmentation, since all of the associated blocks
will be freed, and (if there's any significant pressure on memory)
immediately reused.

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