Proposal: On Linux, add option to periodically trim the glibc heap

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 8/27/21 1:20 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
>> Obviously that doesn't cover all the cases you are describing, but does cover
>> what seems like an important one.  And this seems like it should be fairly easy.
> 
> Yes, and Shenandoah and ZGC are also able to uncommit unused Memory.

+1, I think it would be sensible to shrink the C heap during periodic/explicit GCs. This also reuses 
the existing GC timing/logging/tuning facilities.

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Thanks,
-Aleksey