Re: missing madvise functionality

[Rik van Riel]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> My guess is that all the page zeroing is pretty expensive as well and
> takes significant time, but I haven't profiled it.

I'm pretty sure that page freeing, reallocating and zeroing
is more expensive than just letting the page sit there and
only reclaim it lazily when we need the memory.

I'll try to whip up a patch this week.

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