From netbsd-tech-kern  Tue Nov 23 03:16:35 1999
From: root () ihack ! net (Charles M !  Hannum)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 03:16:35 +0000
To: netbsd-tech-kern
Subject: Re: Memory leak?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=netbsd-tech-kern&m=94332710314844


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.