[c-nsp] question about memory

[Rodney Dunn]

Transient is when you use memory for a brief amount of time and free it back.
Say during a large routing reconvergence event.

Contiguous is in regards to blocks. It means it's a block of memory in adjacent
locations in memory and not "fragmented" in different spots for the same block
of data.

Largest free is the largest block of memory that is contigious and free
to be used by a process.

Rodney

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:14:16PM +0300, Ziv Leyes wrote:
> Hi,
> Could somebody shortly explain or point me to some info about the different router memory types?
> What are "transient" "contiguous" "largest free", etc? I understand more or less what they areI've never had a proper explanation for all those concept, and if I need to explain this to someone I find it difficult, so if somebody can "help me help others" I'll be glad.
> Thanks,
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