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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 15:31:18 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 10 Message-ID: <330798C6.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5dvgb2$10b2@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> <33038055.22A2@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35754 Richard Scranton wrote: > That makes paging much faster. The other quirk of memory management > you are noticing is that the BSD allocator never really gives memory > back to the kernel when it is free'd by a program. The allocator puts That isn't actually true in 2.2/3.0 releases; we now use phkmalloc by default. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.