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Reconsider using MADV_FREE

Using MADV_FREE can be quite confusing for users as memory usage reported by top includes LazyFree memory.

Other projects still always use MADV_DONTNEED, for example:

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/267100/

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=755284

We also reimplement some of the logic of MADV_FREE ourselves, by being reluctant to return memory to the OS.

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