From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 15 01:21:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA06686 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 01:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA06678 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 01:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA24809 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:21:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA15522 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:21:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA00742 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:15:22 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512150915.KAA00742@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: growing X server processes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:15:21 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512142251.XAA01370@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 14, 95 11:51:02 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Probably a FAQ but: why is XF_S3 so much more memory hungry then > XF_SVGA? I used an old ET4000 before and it did not grow nearly as > much as the S3 I use now./ > > There has also been much debate about using gnumalloc. Was that just for > building the clients and/or for the server? Mainly for the server. I believe you're still @ 2.0.5 and XFree86 3.1.1. The S3 server was known to eat up mucho memory, and that's what has finally caused the debate (and perhaps triggered phkmalloc :). XFree86 3.1.2 uses gnumalloc by default, and XFree86 is moving towards their own malloc for the server (it's already in the latest beta, and it seems to work fine). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)