memory defragmentation

[Ren-Song Ko]

At 09:52 AM 2/16/99 -0700, you wrote:

>> Correct me if I am wrong. What actually bother me is that kaffe use a free
>> list to keep track of free memory block. After allocating and reclaiming
>> memory blocks, the free block will not be contiguous and this might be the
>> problem for large objets to fit in. Or did I miss something?
>> 
>
>I don't think the primitive lists are a problem.  They are defragmented
>in that adjacent pieces are spliced together upon free.  At least that's 
>what Jason told me the last time I talked to him about that, and that's 
>also what a quick look at gc-mem.c:gc_primitive_free shows.
>Do you see any problems with that?
>
>	- Godmar
>

I know the free block will be merged with its free neighbors once it is
freed. Will it be possible that a large block can not be allocated in the
heap because each free block on the list is too small, even though total
free memory size is large enough? 

KRS
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Ren-Song Ko, Department of Computer Science, MSU
korenson at cps.msu.edu, http://www.cps.msu.edu/~korenson

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