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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 01:24:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc:        toasty@dragondata.com (Kevin Day), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Idea: disposable memory
Message-ID:  <199909230624.BAA94111@celery.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <37E9C4F7.722AF447@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Sep 23, 1999 03:13:11 PM

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> Kevin Day wrote:
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> man madvise?
> 

Yeah, but MADV_FREE doesn't really do what I need. I have no idea if the
system actually did free my ram or not. I want to hang on to the data, but
if more ram is needed, then it can be discarded, but I need to know that it
did, so that I can recreate it. Checking every time I blit an object to see
if the page is zero'ed won't work.

Kevin


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