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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ? Date: 5 Apr 1996 00:03:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4k1o02$lnj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <4juvuf$5ge@rigel.pixi.com> <4k175q$3jr@amanda.dorsai.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 infi@dorsai.org (Igigi International) writes: > > Speaking of recompiling the Xserver to use (pk?)malloc (sorry, I'm not > 100% sure of my recollection) would someone in the distribution group be > willing to apply tht malloc to the Xservers or at least make it a > seperate package for those using X. Pick /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c out of -current, build a shared lib out of it, and name it /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.2.0. All the XFree86 servers and applications are linked shared, so they would pick up phkmalloc instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)