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From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lars@elbe.desy.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:22:00 +0200
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To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr
Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap
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>I've recompiled most of /bin and /sbin with dlmalloc (and I have a libc.so with
>it). Everything is working except that sh dumps core when I run my .xinitrc

Be careful not to use dlmalloc as a standard replacement for libc malloc,
it does NOT supply page aligned memory even if you malloc a multiple
of NBPG. Standard malloc fits much better into the VM environment and
the only programs I know which have serious problems with it are the XFree
servers.

	LGK