<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Consolas, sans-serif;"> <div>Hey all. We are trying to understand how Jemalloc reclaims free runs and chunks.</div> <div>Specifically for small allocation sizes, what are the heuristics for</div> <div><br> </div> <div>1) free runs being reclaimed within the chunk to be reused for a different size and</div> <div>2) free chunks being released back to the OS?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Could someone kindly point us to a web page, man page, white paper, or source code which explains this?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks!</div> <div>----------</div> <div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Alexander P. Sideropoulos</font></div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">NetApp -- Performance Engineering<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 88, 104);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:siderop1@netapp.com" style="color: blue;">siderop1@netapp.com</a></span></span></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>