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From: Yuxin Ren <ryx@gwmail.gwu.edu>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: application frequently map and unmap memory
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 12:58:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAKbDrdMVskT=Azgnu6DPUpAbJa_gToUcq-jjCvRKe7CJmJ22g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160802161839.GU15995@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

I am looking for real-world applications
I guess if some applications use large chunk of memory, map and unmap
are necessary.
I just am not aware which applications have such requirements.

Thanks..

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:06:29PM -0400, Yuxin Ren wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Are there any applications that stress the memory mapping and unmapping utility
>> (It frequently map and unmap memory)?
>
> Are you looking for real-world applications with this type of load? Or
> artificial stress tests? I would not expect to find many of the former
> since these are costly operations and there are usually better ways to
> do whatever is needed. The latter should be easy to write if needed,
> though.
>
> Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-01 22:06 Yuxin Ren
2016-08-02 16:18 ` Rich Felker
2016-08-02 16:58   ` Yuxin Ren [this message]
2016-08-02 17:36     ` John Levine

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