On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 14:03, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd
> actually argue that the segment size should be substantially smaller
> than 1 GB, like say 64MB; there are still some people running systems
> which are small enough that allocating 1 GB when we may need only 6
> bytes can drive the system into OOM."
I don't even see why you would allocated as much as 64MB. I would
think something around 1MB would be more sensible. So you might need
an array of segment pointers as long as a few thousand pointers, big
deal. We can handle repalloc on 8kB arrays pretty easily.
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greg