Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 02:03:58 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: growing X server processes Message-ID: <199512151003.CAA00725@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:15:21 %2B0100." <199512150915.KAA00742@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Dumb question, If XFree86 is moving to their on efficient malloc shouldn't we be doing the same ? 8) Enjoy, Amancio >>> J Wunsch said: > As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > Probably a FAQ but: why is XF_S3 so much more memory hungry then > > XF_SVGA? I used an old ET4000 before and it did not grow nearly as > > much as the S3 I use now./ > > > > There has also been much debate about using gnumalloc. Was that just for > > building the clients and/or for the server? > > Mainly for the server. > > I believe you're still @ 2.0.5 and XFree86 3.1.1. The S3 server was > known to eat up mucho memory, and that's what has finally caused the > debate (and perhaps triggered phkmalloc :). > > XFree86 3.1.2 uses gnumalloc by default, and XFree86 is moving towards > their own malloc for the server (it's already in the latest beta, and > it seems to work fine). > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIP E > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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