From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 06:49:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA10000 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09995 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:49:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com ([205.138.147.242]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id GAA02482 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:49:00 -0800 Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA27886 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:30:39 -0600 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com(204.124.120.10) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma027882; Thu Mar 14 08:30:37 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA28416; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:10:46 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA06343; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:23:04 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603141423.IAA06343@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:33:51 GMT." <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:23:04 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone on the core team talked to Xinside about this? They said that you (core) were working on it. If it's just a matter of -lgnumalloc, or -lphkmalloc (which isn't in 2.1 in any way shape or form right?) then it seems that they could just use a better malloc and release it right? eric. Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> >> A week or so ago I spoke with the guys at Xinside, they were >> holding their release of Motif because of a memory leak with malloc, >> the code ran fine with BSDi and Linux, but had a leak with FreeBSD. >> Is this phkmalloc or the original malloc which apparently is in 2.1 >> I thought phkmalloc was mainstream months ago, but maybe not. >> >> eric. > >The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than >can easily be confused with a memory leak. > >phkmalloc is >not< in 2.1. > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. >http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. >whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc >. >Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com