From 13c0f77163fb9207bbfba50890fefc89c9eb7acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Jaeger Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:10:35 +0000 Subject: * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Tunable Parameters): Clarify behaviour of M_MMAP_THRESHOLD. --- manual/memory.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'manual') diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index 5427799..10ae4de 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -697,7 +697,8 @@ heap size such that excessive amounts of system calls can be avoided. All chunks larger than this value are allocated outside the normal heap, using the @code{mmap} system call. This way it is guaranteed that the memory for these chunks can be returned to the system on -@code{free}. +@code{free}. Note that requests smaller than this threshold might still +be allocated via @code{mmap}. @item M_MMAP_MAX The maximum number of chunks to allocate with @code{mmap}. Setting this to zero disables all use of @code{mmap}. -- cgit v1.1