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2017 Aug 12
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Strange because in my all my experiments calling malloc.trim always helped
- memory reported by top decreased to the level it supposed to be. Do you
have in mind case when calling malloc.trim won't do anything? Also
shouldn't MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_ env variable has impact on malloc.trim
calls? At the moment seems any value is ignored...
12 ???. 2017 ?. 6:09 ?? ???????????? "Simon
2017 Aug 12
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...calls? At the moment seems any value is ignored...
This is a question for glibc developers. For that matter, this entire
thread is really about tuning of the malloc in glibc and should
ideally be addressed upstream.
There has been some discussion of this in other contexts, e.g. Python at
https://nuald.blogspot.com/2013/06/memory-reclaiming-in-python.html
and emacs at
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2016/04/08_glibc-malloc-inefficiency.html
As the Python posts poitns out, it is possible to use alternate malloc
implementations, either rebuilding R to use them or using LD_PRELOAD.
On Ubuntu f...