Re: shrinking memory (was Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.)

[Stas Bekman]

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
>  
> > What do you say? 1003520 bytes are returned to OS when @x goes out of
> > scope. Note that this doesn't happen if you use a global @x instead.
> 
> because under linux Perl defaults to system malloc:
> % perl -V:usemymalloc
> usemymalloc='n';
> 
> if usemymalloc='y', then Perl uses Perl's malloc, in which case memory is
> not returned to the os.

Does that mean that there is a reason to use the usemymalloc='n' to make
the memory footprint smaller? Or the realloc from the next invocation will
just waste the time, because the memory was freed?


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