Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:08:05 +1100 (EST) From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Before and after the cure (was Re: malloc upgrade) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960307120025.8508C-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199603070047.LAA27575@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > The XFree people are working on a custom allocator specifically tuned to > the way that X uses memory. You can build the XFree servers using the > stock malloc (the current distributions), with gnumalloc (which is better) > or with phkmalloc (the 'new' malloc Luigi is talking about). Unfortunatly, being fairly new to this stuff, I dont know how to go about building XFree using a different malloc. It seems as though lots of people know how to fix this really annoying 'feature', so I keep expecting that someone will produce a patch or XFree port which includes an X aware malloc. > Either of the latter two will improve the server's behaviour. I would > expect the up-and-coming custom allocator to be significantly better again. This indeed sounds like something to look forward to. Anthony
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