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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ?
Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:31:12 -0800
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In-reply-to: Robert N Watson's message of Sun, 29 Oct 1995 16:56:16 -0500
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In article <skYzW0u00YUxEVzl80@andrew.cmu.edu> Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
$ Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 21-Oct-95 Re:
$ XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ? Faried Nawaz@uidaho.edu (1391*)
(fn@uidaho.edu, actually...)
$ I relinked my X server today, and I believe the leak has gone away (not
$ sure if I relinked it right, though.)
you can tell by running `ldd' on it. a "standard" 3.11 server looks like
XF86_Mach32:
-lm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 (0x820d000)
-lc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 (0x8224000)
and (if you relinked it correctly) the relinked one like
XF86_W32:
-lgnumalloc.2 => /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.2.0 (0x8116000)
-lm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 (0x811a000)
-lc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 (0x8131000)
$ One really dramatic difference I
$ noticed (that may or may not be there legitimastely) was a difference in
$ the size of binary produced compared to the dist version:
$
$ -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 1747609 Oct 29 16:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA*
$ -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 2811834 Oct 8 19:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA-old*
$
$ That's a pretty dramatic difference -- I did a showconfig and they both
$ have the same drivers. Is it just that it's using the shlib now and
$ wasn't in the distirbution version..?
i don't know how much of a difference relinking makes. perhaps one is a
stripped binary and the other isn't? try `file' on both.