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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-10-18 08:56:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-10-18 08:56:19 +0200 |
| commit | 19557f40433436932b2cae030daa9ebae082584e (patch) | |
| tree | e683243448516e6df5b638c46ca3ade80540382f | |
| parent | b075133f9c8448e9b8963134e91ae2e5242924f8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-19557f40433436932b2cae030daa9ebae082584e.tar.gz | |
mallopt.3: Document 0 as default value of M_ARENA_MAX and explain its meaning
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/mallopt.3 b/man3/mallopt.3 index 6db1d1c945..58e3614954 100644 --- a/man3/mallopt.3 +++ b/man3/mallopt.3 @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ The trade-off is between the number of threads and the number of arenas. The more arenas you have, the lower the per-thread contention, but the higher the memory usage. +The default value of this parameter is 0, +meaning that there is no limit on the number of arenas that can be created. + This parameter has been available since glibc 2.10 via .BR \-\-enable\-experimental\-malloc , and since glibc 2.15 by default. |