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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Fraser <petros.fraser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> On Thu, February 23, 2006 9:21 pm, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The most likely culprit is the fact that redzones are enabled at the
>>> moment in -CURRENT.
>>>
>>> On that note, Mike - did you try turning them off?
>>
>>
>> Yes, it lowered my swap space usage from 40MB to 1MB. Which is certainly
>> better, but even before, my system used no swap.
>>
>
> Hmm, that's not so great - any idea about how much free memory you had 
> using the old malloc?
>
> I'm interested, as I run 6.0R on a PIII with 512MB RAM and have (right 
> now) 193MB free, that's with Enlightment, Firefox, Thunderbird, xmms, 
> and several Eterms running - so needless to say it runs great. I'm 
> wondering what the situation will look like with -CURRENT....

Nope, and i don't really feel like backing out malloc and recompiling 
world now  :P Basically, i had bit more free memory, but i suggest you 
stick with 6.x, unless you don't mind testing a development branch.