From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 25 00:52:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21920 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:52:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA21912 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0ySzkt-0002im-00; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:52:15 -0700 Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Eivind Eklund cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl from Linux (*envy*) In-Reply-To: <19980424224346.35645@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > memory :-). This is a useful feature, since programs often > malloc() huge amounts of memory 'just in case', while they I'm not aware of any program that does that. I'm not aware why any application programmer would even think malloc'ing they aren't using is a good idea. It just doesn't make sense on any modern VM system. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message