From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 6 21:50:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA09135 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:50:19 -0700 Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA09129 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:50:06 -0700 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA05206; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:48:25 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:48:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199508070448.VAA05206@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: (message from Brian Tao on Sun, 6 Aug 1995 16:43:38 +0800 (CST)) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1.2 & gnumalloc From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * From: Brian Tao * * On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: * > Assuming that there isn't any instability introduced, gnumalloc is * > indeed a win for memory consumption! I used to have core dumps when I C-A-F1'd out of a 16bpp S3 server (3.1.1u2 + gnumalloc) while running xsnow, but the 3.1.2 XF86_S3 doesn't do that to me anymore. :) * Tell me about it: * * 4904 taob 37 0 5940K 2076K run 0:34 4.06% 4.04% netscape * 165 root 2 0 6444K 5256K run 336:45 5.07% 5.07% XF86_Mach64 * 5231 taob 2 0 2892K 2292K sleep 0:03 0.61% 0.61% xv * * My X server is normally up to around 12 to 15 megs after a few * hours of normal usage. xv, after loading in several large TIFF's and * RGB files, is typically sitting up in the 5- to 6- megabyte range. * Netscape is, of course, its usual bloated self. ;-) Other than the Tk * tear-off menu problem, it's been running flawlessly. Well, gnumalloc in XF86_* can only help you for XF86_*. ;) But xv, if you picked up a recent version from ports, will use gnumalloc (check out patch-ad). And for netscape, well that's statically linked, nothing we can do about it. I've added -lgnumalloc to my FreeBSD.cf a couple of months ago and all the X clients (that use imake) that I have compiled since then have been working fine so far. Satoshi