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- From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
- Message-ID: <RJC.92Nov17163649@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:36:49 GMT
- References: <1683@igd.fhg.de> <1992Nov9.235741.25166@dsd.es.com>
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- In-reply-to: drand@spinner.osf.org's message of 16 Nov 92 16:24:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.162457.2923@osf.org>, Douglas S. Rand (dsr) writes:
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- rjc> The word is `Fragmentation'.
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- dsr> There are a number of reasonable solutions to memory
- dsr> fragmentation. It really is up to a decent malloc implementation
- dsr> to attempt to avoid fragmentation.
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- Certainly, I didn't mean to imply that the problem was unavoidable,
- simply that the growing server didn't have to imply a memory leak.
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- As you say, the sample server is a sample, no doubt the MIT people
- have much better things to work on than a tailored memory allocator.
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