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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 16:56:16 -0500
Organization: Freshman, H&SS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 21-Oct-95 Re:
XF86_SVGA eats 9Mb ? Faried Nawaz@uidaho.edu (1391*)
> there's a fix:
> get the Xserver link kit (part of XFree86),
> edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/FreeBSD.cf and uncomment -lgnumalloc,
> relink and install the server.
> you're done. the size of my Xserver dropped from 3-8mb to 1.9-5mb (depending
> on what i ran, etc).
> another option is to install XFree86 3.12. that has everything linked with
> gnumalloc.
I relinked my X server today, and I believe the leak has gone away (not
sure if I relinked it right, though.) 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..?
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org