Unfortunately, it did what we suspected: died hard when its address space got fragmented. (In the meantime I restarted the daemons with much smaller sizes, accounting for the bloat which accumulates over a few hours....)
I jotted out notes for an arena allocation scheme where we only malloc large, fixed-size pages and handle our own placement and and recompaction within those pages. However, I can't believe this hasn't been done before.
I want a memory allocator that lets you register a hook when it wants to move allocations around to defragment, so you can update pointers and whatnot. Anybody know of one?
