Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:29:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Subject: Re: Removing limits from malloc(9) Message-ID: <XFMail.20020412132950.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101517b8dcc51dad4b@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 12-Apr-2002 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:58 AM -0400 4/12/02, Jeff Roberson wrote: >>This is more along the lines of what I was looking for. I >>don't like the limits but I wasn't sure if anyone found them >>to be useful. So far I have heard 2 votes for getting rid >>of limits, and no votes for keeping them. > > My earlier comment was meant to be a weak vote for the limits. > "weak" in the sense that I would like to keep them, but that > I do not feel very strongly about it. Consider it more like > half-a-vote for them. Even with that, I wouldn't mind if limits > were only available as a malloc option (set via /etc/malloc.conf) > and not done by default. These are limits for kernel malloc(9), not userland malloc(3). These two malloc's are entirely unrelated. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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