From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 6:14:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 06:14:16 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luxren2.boostworks.com (luxren2.boostworks.com [194.167.81.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B114C37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 06:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from boostworks.com (root@oldrn.luxdev.boostworks.com [192.168.1.99]) by luxren2.boostworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA36266; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:12:13 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200012071412.PAA36266@luxren2.boostworks.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:11:50 +0100 (CET) From: Remy Nonnenmacher Reply-To: remy@boostworks.com Subject: Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages. To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <89938.976195923@critter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: root@boostworks.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Dec, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200012071200.NAA35634@luxren2.boostworks.com>, Remy Nonnenmacher wr > ites: > >>Well, I may think using this solution if it remains portable between >>Unixes. I finally tracked down the problem, after suppressing the >>reason to call __smakebuf and tooling malloc.c. > > Please examine the 'H' option to malloc. This does a much better > job. > I agree about the hints, but as i said at the end of my previous mail, this is hardly a clean-bill winning response against a customer sighting a 30/40 Mbytes 'top' column ;). RN. ItM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message