From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 11:30:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA18030 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18021 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA23198; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:25:05 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199603131925.UAA23198@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:25:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 13, 96 04:33:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than Not only that, it actually tends to allocate a full page for every small block (from ~ upwards) that you malloc(), and this just to hold a 32-bit value. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================