Re: When are coroutines collected?
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- Subject: Re: When are coroutines collected?
- From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
- Date: 2008年2月27日 16:53:44 +0100
"Javier Guerra" <javier@guerrag.com> writes:
> On 2/27/08, Chris <coderight@gmail.com> wrote:
>> which use about 1.3 GB of RAM, after the collection the process it is
>> still using 1.3 GB of RAM.
>
> AFAIR, on unix (and unix-like) systems, a process never releases
> memory back to the OS, but it's managed internally as free.
But he said that he is running "Linux" which likely means "GNU/Linux",
namely glibc. In that case, at least larger allocations are handled by
privately memory-mapping /dev/zero, a technique making the operating
system responsible for fragmentation. Maybe the allocation requests
from Lua to the C library are too small to trigger this mechanism?
--
David Kastrup