Submit #2832
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Fix realloc issue causing large amount of munmap and mmap-ing
Added by vadaszi almost 10 years ago.
Updated almost 10 years ago.
Description
Realloc behaviour was broken by 8120f5e2a46e669c06a7afdd7de60fa6d6996f9d.
This issue makes gdb unusable on large core files as generated when chromium crashes.
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- Status changed from New to Resolved
I will commit a slightly modified version of this fix that is even more permissive. It will shortcut size + 4096 == bigbytes unconditionally, and also shortcut size >= bigbytes - (size >> 2) which should reduce geometrically inefficient reallocations as the size gets bigger and bigger.
I will also increase the _slaballoc size for reallocations > 64KB geoemetrically with 'size += size >> 3' (effectively). Not perfect, but it will greatly reduce the overhead for programs that do incremental reallocations.
-Matt
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