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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: bin/4526: realloc causes excessive swapping (more info for bin/4524) 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4526; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: mak@webcrawler.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/4526: realloc causes excessive swapping (more info for bin/4524) 
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 22:10:07 +0200

 >
 >	Repeatedly calling realloc causes much more memory to be used
 >        then you'd expect. For example, when procmail tried reading an
 >        8M message, this was sufficient to run a 64M (128M swap) machine
 >        doing nothing else out of swap (and into the ground :-)
 > [...]
 >>Fix:
 >	
 >	Recompiling the code with the malloc.c from freebsd-current
 >
 
 And remember to try this:
 
 	ln -s H /etc/malloc.conf
 
 (It's default in -current since middle august).
 
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 Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
 phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."