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05/30/2023

12:27 PM Ruby master Misc #19122: Use MADV_DONTNEED instead of MADV_FREE when freeing a Fiber's stack

ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote in #note-5:
> If you want to use a specific mode (OS specific), you can do this:
>... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

11/25/2022

10:06 AM Ruby master Misc #19122: Use MADV_DONTNEED instead of MADV_FREE when freeing a Fiber's stack

ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote in #note-2:
> I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I'm generally against l... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

11/11/2022

04:06 PM Ruby master Misc #19122: Use MADV_DONTNEED instead of MADV_FREE when freeing a Fiber's stack

@ioquatix apologies for the direct assignment; you just seemed like the person who has the most knowledge and investm... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

04:06 PM Ruby master Misc #19122 (Assigned): Use MADV_DONTNEED instead of MADV_FREE when freeing a Fiber's stack

I'd like to propose that Ruby stops using MADV_FREE when freeing a Fiber's stack, and switches to using MADV_DONTNEED... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

11/07/2022

08:51 PM Ruby master Bug #19101: madvise(free) was broken in 3.1?

ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote in #note-5:
> I am copying all the discussion from GitHub here:
> [...]
> smcgive... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

11/04/2022

11:20 AM Ruby master Bug #19101: madvise(free) was broken in 3.1?

ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote:
> https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/77f3319071e600a2aafaa9863b892dfd3c1da343#r88... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)

01/19/2021

02:40 PM Ruby master Bug #17561 (Closed): The timeout option for Addrinfo.getaddrinfo is not reliable on Ruby 2.7.2

#15553 introduced a timeout option for Addrinfo.getaddrinfo, which uses getaddrinfo_a internally. It appears this has... smcgivern (Sean McGivern)