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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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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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