From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 7 00:36:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA22159 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 00:36:13 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA22149 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 00:36:06 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00262; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 15:35:10 +0800 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 15:35:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Satoshi Asami cc: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1.2 & gnumalloc In-Reply-To: <199508070448.VAA05206@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > I used to have core dumps when I C-A-F1'd out of a 16bpp S3 server > (3.1.1u2 + gnumalloc) while running xsnow, but the 3.1.2 XF86_S3 > doesn't do that to me anymore. :) I noticed the local XF86 mirror site still hasn't picked up 3.1.2 yet, so I continue to wait. :( > Well, gnumalloc in XF86_* can only help you for XF86_*. ;) But xv, if > you picked up a recent version from ports, will use gnumalloc (check > out patch-ad). And for netscape, well that's statically linked, > nothing we can do about it. Whoops, I wasn't clean in my previous post. I have recompiled xv to use gnumalloc as well, and was thus commenting on the increased memory usage efficiency of xv vs. the unmodified (unmodifiable!) Netscape binary. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org