>>> Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> schrieb am 18.02.2021 um 19:30 in Nachricht <YC6yQIX+7MFLvhmc@gardel-login>: ... > entry instead of asking for new memory again. This allocation cache is > a bit quicker then going to malloc() all the time, but means if you > just watch the heap you'll assume there's a leak even though there > isn't really, the memory is not lost after all, and will be reused > eventually if we need it.
That's an interesting point of view: If you save memory in case you might need it at some unspecified later time (which includes "never") it's "practically" (while not theoretically) a memory leak. > > You may use the env var SYSTEMD_MEMPOOL=0 to turn this logic off, but > not sure v230 already knew that env var. > > Lennart > > ‑‑ > Lennart Poettering, Berlin > _______________________________________________ > systemd‑devel mailing list > systemd‑de...@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd‑devel _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
