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Can you please explain the fields “Alloc Count” and “Free Count” in the memstat “Outstanding Allocation” report?

April 26, 2017explain Fields memstat report

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Can you please explain the fields “Alloc Count” and “Free Count” in the memstat “Outstanding Allocation” report?

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A specific allocation point (see below) might be reached just once (usually at initialization) and will have an Alloc Count of 1. It may or may not ever free that so the Free Count will be 0 or 1. But many (most!) applications have allocation points that give rise to more than one allocation.