From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 12:36:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA26447 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:36:39 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA26431 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:36:20 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0snsrh-000I4kC; Wed, 30 Aug 95 21:32 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0snsYG-00000wC; Wed, 30 Aug 95 21:11 MET DST Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: GNUmalloc for XFree86 To: tony@thing.sunquest.com (Tony Jones) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:11:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508301727.AA13282@thing.sunquest.com> from "Tony Jones" at Aug 30, 95 10:27:22 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1113 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?