Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 11:31:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <199508051831.LAA02979@bubba.tribe.com>
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In all the confusion, I missed the answers to a couple of questions
I had regarding the memory situation... I also have a new one... :-)
1. I wrote:
> How hard would it be to replace the existing malloc() with GNU malloc()?
I assume this would entail rebuilding libc... perhaps we can "reorder" it
in the process (based on ... ?).
This is not theoretical, I'd really like to do this.
2. I wrote:
> On a related note, does the kernel ever promise more memory than it
> can actually deliver? Or do all calls to malloc() reserve swap (at least)?
> In either case, is this behavior configurable?
It didn't sound like this was configurable, but I just want to
check and make sure.
3. Finally, it would be nice to see a "free" command like Linux has.
For example:
$ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 11324 11148 176 3084 6024
Swap: 52412 0 52412
[ This isn't the best example because no swap is currently being used,
but you get the idea ] Can we add this? I'll write the program if
someone shows me where to get this information (from pstat?).
Thanks,
-Archie
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