From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 12 11:19: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A4737B400; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3CIJ213431960; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:19:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:19:01 -0400 To: John Baldwin From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Removing limits from malloc(9) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 1:29 PM -0400 4/12/02, John Baldwin wrote: >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. Ah. Okay, reduce my vote to 1/10th of a vote for limits... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message