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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: realloc() - frequency, conditions, or experiences about
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:51:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:38:28 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 25.06.2024 um 09:06 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
> 
>> I wrote a memory-hog app for Android once, and found that allocating
>> large amounts of memory space had very little impact on the system.
>> Then when I added code to actually write data into those allocated
>> pages, that’s when it really started to break into a sweat ...
> 
> Then android is also doing overcommit.

It is running a Linux kernel, and that tends to be the default setup in 
Linux.