Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 07:07:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Oleg Cherkasov <Oleg.Cherkasov@mail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: philosophical question... Message-ID: <20011203070716.A21558@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <01120314575508.10748@vesna>; from Oleg.Cherkasov@mail.com on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:57:55PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011203074251.94074Q-100000@fledge.watson.org> <01120314575508.10748@vesna>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:57:55PM +0100, Oleg Cherkasov wrote: > > Yes, you are right, it is better to keep it out of the kernel. But except > having /etc/malloc.conf, is it better to have a shell variable MEMORY_RANDOM > or MALLOC_CONF? In this case just 'weak' services can be run with that > option on. We still do not know how will it affect performance ... because > it will be additional cycles during memory allocation for every single > *alloc() call. Some software could be very aggressive using malloc(), who > knows. The MALLOC_OPTIONS variable would allow this. Please RFTM before posting. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8C5UjXY6L6fI4GtQRAr9zAKCsPiKk2OzrpsGFeDJnr6+Kwmx4IgCfSygm 3tedXL84PtuFpi9Ahpy3IRc= =9/px -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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