From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: question to malloc and free
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:33:21 -0300
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DougEleveld wrote:
> Because
> if you allocated 1.2k and get 2k, and you never access out of the range
> that you are allowed (which you should never do anyway) then the other
> 0.8k will never get paged in, and it will make very little difference if
> 0.8k out of the 4gig is wasted, especially since maximum real+virtual
> memory is way less than 4gig anyway.
	But, isn't the page-size 4k?
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