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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Oleg Cherkasov <Oleg.Cherkasov@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: philosophical question...
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:57:55PM +0100, Oleg Cherkasov wrote:
>=20
> Yes, you are right, it is better to keep it out of the kernel.  But excep=
t=20
> having /etc/malloc.conf, is it better to have a shell variable MEMORY_RAN=
DOM=20
> or MALLOC_CONF?  In this case just 'weak' services can be run with that=
=20
> option on.  We still do not know how will it affect performance ... becau=
se=20
> it will be additional cycles during memory allocation for every single=20
> *alloc() call.  Some software could be very aggressive using malloc(), wh=
o=20
> knows.

The MALLOC_OPTIONS variable would allow this.  Please RFTM before
posting.

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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