From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 09:26:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA13424 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:26:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13418 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA02232; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:26:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:26:22 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: "Eric L. Hernes" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... In-Reply-To: <199603141423.IAA06343@jake.lodgenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Eric L. Hernes wrote: > Has anyone on the core team talked to Xinside about this? > They said that you (core) were working on it. If it's just > a matter of -lgnumalloc, or -lphkmalloc (which isn't in 2.1 in > any way shape or form right?) then it seems that they could just > use a better malloc and release it right? Or, is there any more specific info on nature of the leak? I compiled Motif 2.0 from source a week or so ago. I have a 2.1 system, but with phkmalloc in my libc. I have a copy of mwm linked with phkmalloc and one with gnumalloc. From informal observation using top, they appear to behave about the same; the RSS typically ranges from about 900K to 3000K and the VSS hangs out at around 900K. I have not observed any notable leakage. (Unless, of course, you consider motif itself to be a memory leak, but that is a different topic.) Some of the demo programs have memory management bogons that pkhmalloc gripes about. I have yet to go through all the test programs. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============