>But my original question still stands -- what is the drawback to hanging on
>to locked Dm-allocated chunks?
The only problem I can think of would be during a beam receive. In this
case, another application could need to create database records behind your
back. By having a bunch of records locked, you may limit the ability to
rearrange the storage heap to create the records. It probably isn't a
problem if there is lots of free memory, but it could cause a beam to fail
under moderately low memory conditions. This is not a terribly fatal error,
but it would be annoying to the user.
Bill Goodman
Cyclos
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