From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 4 00:07:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA02589 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA02569; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA14906; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 06:31:48 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id GAA09876; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 06:31:25 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-2.10/nospam) id DAA17652; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 03:58:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19971004035858.34857@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 03:58:58 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Electric Fence info (was Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?)) References: <199710031817.OAA16814@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199710031817.OAA16814@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Fri, Oct 03, 1997 at 02:17:17PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Thomas David Rivers: > Ok - there seems to be enough interest... Here's the man page > for electric fence (which does the mprotect() trick Jordan mentions): The main problem of EFence is the amount of swap it takes... I tried to run Mutt through it a few months ago and ran out of swap _before_ displaying anything. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #35: Sun Sep 21 19:28:07 CEST 1997