From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 12 10:30:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955A37B427 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10736 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2002 17:30:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Apr 2002 17:30:36 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CHVRv61407; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:29:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Removing limits from malloc(9) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Roberson Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< 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