Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 12:34:02 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and swap Message-ID: <199507161634.MAA05179@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <3ub86h$qp1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.current you write:
>>> BTW, It stayed at 14MB when I exited Netscape.
>>
>>Either I'm behind the times, or you are failing to understand a fundamental
>>fact about memory allocation under BSD (and IIRC most unices.)
>>
>>Processes can only ever grow, they can never shrink.
> Fundamental? BSD malloc doesn't free memory back to the system, but
>GNU malloc and several others do. We plan to switch to one of these other
>mallocs (not a GPL'd one) at some point in the future (perhaps 2.2).
Unfortunatly in the X server situation, it helps but the server still grows
amazingly large over time. Using gnumalloc just increases time. My server
grows to 15m within a day of starting it, and stays there :(.
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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