Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 01:24:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Idea: disposable memory Message-ID: <199909230624.BAA94111@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <37E9C4F7.722AF447@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Sep 23, 1999 03:13:11 PM
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> > Kevin Day wrote: > > > > Thoughts? > > man madvise? > Yeah, but MADV_FREE doesn't really do what I need. I have no idea if the system actually did free my ram or not. I want to hang on to the data, but if more ram is needed, then it can be discarded, but I need to know that it did, so that I can recreate it. Checking every time I blit an object to see if the page is zero'ed won't work. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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