Re: Killing clones

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
16 Sep 1997 16:26:29 +0200


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Teunis Peters wrote:
> >
> You can use "mremap()" to grow or shrink (or move) an existing memory map.
>
> I don't know if anybody uses it, though.
>
The GNU libc uses it for all memory allocations > 128k (this is
configurable, I think).

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