> On Linux, to clear large regions of memory, the best way seems > to be madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Indeed, the previous trick of > reading /dev/zero does not seem to have the correct effect of > lazily-allocating pages on all Linux systems (e.g. bigdog-vm1). > Note that this usage of madvise() is purely Linux-specific. >
Note that bigdogvm1 is a vm, it might behave differently... _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
