Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:11:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: tony@thing.sunquest.com (Tony Jones) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNUmalloc for XFree86 Message-ID: <m0snsYG-00000wC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <9508301727.AA13282@thing.sunquest.com> from "Tony Jones" at Aug 30, 95 10:27:22 am
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>From the keyboard of Tony Jones:
> I've seen several discussions on this list regarding the large memory
> requirements of XFree86 when using the system malloc, and that GNUmalloc
> might be a solution.
>
> I'm assuming people have tried using GNUmalloc - does anyone have any stats
> on how much of a benefit it provides ?
I have recompiled XFree86 3.1.1 using gnumalloc and i'm very satisfied with
it. I have had a machine with 16M of ram and after starting my usual X
environment (fvwm with lots of goodstuff modules) it eat up half of my 48M
swapspace, since i recompiled with gnumalloc, this went down to 2..4% and
it "felt" much more "flexible". Anyway, i just bought an additional 8M
recently ...
> If it's tangible, I might go fetch the X sources and rebuld (any pitfalls
> to watch for here?)
No pitfalls, at least not for me, just configure to use -lgnumalloc, recompile
and reinstall (i also configured gcc to use -pipe).
hellmuth
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