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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:02:36 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2
Message-ID:  <200602162202.51872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <E4C8824D-211E-4712-8997-857123ADEB48@freebsd.org>
References:  <200601301652.16237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200602011424.57722.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <E4C8824D-211E-4712-8997-857123ADEB48@freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 04:55, Jason Evans wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to revert to the old malloc? Just back out
> > malloc.c?
>
> Yes, you can revert to revision 1.92 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c .

I finally got around to trying this and it seems that reverting it has redu=
ced=20
KDE's memory consumption considerably..

Perhaps it's allocation pattern is particularly pathological?

I can supply debugging information about it if you tell me what you need.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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