Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:02:40 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Fraser <petros.fraser@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT Message-ID: <43FE9370.8000209@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <43FE7800.4040808@paradise.net.nz> References: <aa2cc130602231241u15e464bcu848a4aef2998c50f@mail.gmail.com> <43FE6DBD.5000006@paradise.net.nz> <2154.FgtQRFVGBkU=.1140749016.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <43FE7800.4040808@paradise.net.nz>
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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.
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