From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:31:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuff
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C9wA=Yig6n4evqYnpOTqOWKbH4kXH5OaYTRvS_5a+a8A@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> We don't hold this memory forever though. If the daemon is idle for a
> while, it exits, releasing memory back to system. And not using
> mlock() already gives the OS more freedom in memory usage.

Yup, that is why I suspected you wanted to use something other than
mlock().