Subject: Re: Memory leak?
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/22/1999 22:16:35
Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> writes:

> Have you thought about explicity including support for reference
> counding into pool(9)?

I asked about this a while back, but never received an answer.  My
idea at the time was to support paging: add an overall per-slab
reference count (but the user doesn't know that it's applied to a slab
rather than a particular object), and when it drops to 0 the slab is
marked pageable.