On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:56:34 am AJ ONeal wrote: > My educated guess is that dynamically allocated memory is subject to > fragmentation (just like a hard drive)
You are correct. Read this (old) article from LWN explaining the problem: http://lwn.net/Articles/211505/ The debate still continues as to what to do with fragmented memory, and LWN covers that well. But, to answer the question "does memory fragment" the answer is "absolutely, yes." Does it impact performance? As usual, the answer is "it depends." -- Alberto Treviño BYU Testing Center Brigham Young University -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
