On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Kenneth Gober <kgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de>wrote: > >> * Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> [2010-08-07 19:54]: >> > you write your own allocator. >> >> don't. ever. > > > to put it another way, if memory fragmentation ever does become a problem > for you, there is probably an easier and safer solution than writing your > own allocator. upgrading to a 64-bit platform, for example, is likely to be > a far better solution. modifying your app to use malloc(3) and free(3) more > conservatively may be a viable option as well, although at that point you're
came across this several times. thank you. i guess this is the way. just lessen calls to malloc and free? but isn't this just a performance concern? was wondering if there are any special 'moves' that are employed in creating daemons in openbsd that the devs might care to share. > starting down the road of writing your own allocator again. > > -ken
