Mention different mmap(2) behaviour with retain:true.

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Edward Tomasz Napierala 2018-11-30 13:57:49 +00:00 committed by David Goldblatt
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@ -944,6 +944,9 @@ mallctl("arena." STRINGIFY(MALLCTL_ARENAS_ALL) ".decay",
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>munmap</refentrytitle> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>munmap</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> or equivalent (see <link <manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> or equivalent (see <link
linkend="stats.retained">stats.retained</link> for related details). linkend="stats.retained">stats.retained</link> for related details).
It also makes jemalloc use <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>mmap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> in a more greedy way, mapping larger chunks in one go.
This option is disabled by default unless discarding virtual memory is This option is disabled by default unless discarding virtual memory is
known to trigger known to trigger
platform-specific performance problems, e.g. for [64-bit] Linux, which platform-specific performance problems, e.g. for [64-bit] Linux, which