On Tuesday 2016-05-31 12:50 -0400, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> It's likely that this particular report is running out of VM, yes. jemalloc
> allocates new memory chunks in large blocks (1MB?), and with only 122MB of
> VM it's likely that a lot of that is inaccessible, either because of
> fragmentation or because sites are allocating VM blocks of less than 64k,
> which is the allocation resolution of Windows VM.
> 
> If you look at the raw dump tab, you'll see:
> 
> "largest_free_vm_block": "0xf0000" - which is 983040 bytes, less than 1MB.

Would it make sense for jemalloc to try allocating memory in smaller
chunks when large ones aren't available?

-David

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