Re: Memory fragmentation?

Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:

> Still it would really useful to see if there's a way to directly tell 
> the OS the page is no longer used, and can be discarded (not even stored 
> in swap).

I'm not sure how useful that is in the common case... It shouldn't 
directly affect performance, and disk space is dirt cheap. I'd actually 
be a little wary of a negative perf impact, because the VM system is no 
longer dealing with a single contiguous, homogeneous block of memory.

Justin