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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:22:22 +1000
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Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>>What causes memory to be so fragmented? 
> 
> 
> Normal usage; the pattern of pages being freed and allocated inevitably
> leads to fragmentation. The buddy allocator does a good job of
> minimising it, but what is really needed is a run-time defragmenter. I
> saw mention of this recently, but it's probably not that practical to
> implement IMHO.
> 

Well, by this stage it looks like memory is already pretty well shrunk
as much as it is going to be, which means that even a pretty capable
defragmenter won't be able to do anything.
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