From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 08:58:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24633 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:58:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24624 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA06218; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:03:06 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199703201603.RAA06218@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: XFree86 Question To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@COLSTATE.EDU (Christian) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:03:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1118A557B22@colstate.edu> from "Christian" at Mar 20, 97 11:22:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > About six months or more (probably more) ago there was a discussion > on one of the FreeBSD lists (I think it was questions, but I could be > wrong) about re-linking the X server with phkmalloc because the stock > X server was linked against another libary which had major memory > leaks. I'm wondering if this is still true, and if so how would I go > about relinking the X server with a better malloc library? this is probably not an issue with 2.2 which use phkmalloc as a default. I have done the above on my 2.1 system and have been running happily with phkmalloc for almost one year. phkmalloc evidences bugs in some programs (noticeably the version of "vi" in 2.1R when autoindent and word-wrap is enabled, and also gnuplot) but the X server seems to be quite stable (both S3 and SVGA) Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________