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Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc


> What having at kernel keep list of pages that are currently unused. On memory
> shortage kernel reclaims them. When minor page fault occurs we do not
> need to zero page but remap one of unused. 

It's necessary. I've explained you why several month ago.



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