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To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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Subject: Re: growing X server processes 
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:37:05 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> I use it for everything. Without gnumalloc my server would easily
> grow to ~10meg and never shrink. This was not very good on my 8meg ram/
> 32meg swap machine to have a third of my swap consumed by unused server
You should try out the malloc in -current then.  I would probably do even
better than gnumalloc in low-ram environments.


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