Tag
free-space
- Sep 30, 2026 Measuring Fragmentation: Free Space That Cannot Be Used How internal and external fragmentation differ, why a heap can be mostly free and still fail a large request, and which ratios turn free space into a number that predicts allocation failure. memory systems
- Sep 6, 2024 Discard and TRIM: Telling the Device Which Blocks Are Free How discard requests travel from the filesystem to the device, why they are advisory, what a secure erase adds, and the cost of queuing them badly. filesystems
- Dec 19, 2022 Flex Basis, Free Space, and the Grow-Shrink Algorithm How a flex container assigns base sizes, computes free space along the main axis, and resolves growth and shrinkage when items are clamped by minimums. web platform