Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:03:07 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: growing X server processes Message-ID: <199512151903.LAA04166@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 1995 12:33:34 %2B0100." <6913.819027214@critter.tfs.com>
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>>> Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> > Now, what will be interesting to find out is, why does the XFree86 team
> > need to write their malloc?
> for the same reason(s) FreeBSD did.
May I ask what are those reasons?
Also, does the malloc return memory back to the system when it can?
>
> > >From my experience on X , is kind of hard to conceive that the X server /
cli
> ent
> > behave that much different than any large complex system. This of course
> > is a generalization.
> The point is exactly that they have a specific case to optimize against.
I guess that it should be interesting to find out exactly what is the
case or the profile that Kaleb mentioned in another posting.
Amancio
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