Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:16:09 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2 Message-ID: <200601311616.10870.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200601310914.39886.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200601301652.16237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060130215554.GA68540@xor.obsecurity.org> <200601310914.39886.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 08:25, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > I did have a kernel from before the new malloc and it still seemed
> > > quite sluggish. I remember being stuck because a commit to the AGP
> > > driver on 20/12/05 prevented the nvidia driver building.
> >
> > new malloc =3D userland, not kernel.
>
> Yeah but I don't install world without first doing install kernel :)
I think I was crack smoking here..
Recompiling the new libc with NO_MALLOC_EXTRAS reduced the memory usage=20
*significantly*.
A make.conf knob would be highly appreciated here :)
Here's a patch which seems to work here although my eyeballs almost explode=
d=20
when reading the makefile so I don't know if it will have bad side-effects..
Index: lib/libc/Makefile
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
RCS file: /usr/CVS-Repository/src/lib/libc/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.58
diff -u -r1.58 Makefile
=2D-- lib/libc/Makefile 29 Dec 2005 04:10:52 -0000 1.58
+++ lib/libc/Makefile 31 Jan 2006 05:42:53 -0000
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
WARNS?=3D 2
CFLAGS+=3D-I${.CURDIR}/include -I${.CURDIR}/../../include
CFLAGS+=3D-I${.CURDIR}/${MACHINE_ARCH}
+.if defined(NO_MALLOC_EXTRAS)
+CFLAGS+=3D-DNO_MALLOC_EXTRAS
+.endif
CLEANFILES+=3Dtags
INSTALL_PIC_ARCHIVE=3D
PRECIOUSLIB=3D
=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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