shrinking memory consumptions

[Ivan Krstić]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> I'll push this patch locally upstream as well, perhaps we can use it
> meanwhile. 150kb is quite a bit of memory, when all you have is 128MiB

Thanks for your work on this. Despite Jim's (correct) warning that there
is lower-hanging fruit, it's savings like these that quickly add up to
substantial numbers. We are helped quite a bit by the decision to ship
with 256 MB of RAM in the production machines.

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