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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Date: 8 Sep 1995 15:37:28 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 52 Message-ID: <42pnvo$3t@helena.MT.net> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <MICHAELV.95Sep5185933@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <42lf6e$f17@helena.MT.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep7211514@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5822 comp.os.linux:58940 In article <MICHAELV.95Sep7211514@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <42lf6e$f17@helena.MT.net> nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes: > > In article <MICHAELV.95Sep5185933@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, > Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: > > [ FreeBSD using more real memory than Linux in same applications ] > > >In article <42iicc$hlk@news.jf.intel.com> haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) writes: > > > If this is true, does anyone have any idea to what extent it might be > > because FreeBSD is still using the ancient powers-of-two Caltech malloc? > > >Sounds like a lot of hear-say bull to me... > > While I appreciate your comments normally, this 'hear-say bull' is out > of line. If you haven't done your homework, then don't assume someone > else hasn't either. > >No, you missed my point entirely, Nate. The hear-say bull is that >FreeBSD binaries use way more memory than Linux binaries... Ok. 'Way more' is out of line, but more if true in many cases. >My >comment had nothing to do with the malloc controversy. I link all my >binaries with GNU malloc anyway, so I guess you'd say I agree with >you. *grin* > [ FYI - Mike is the author of GNU malloc ] > >Am not! ;-) Wrong Mike. I used Mike instead of Michael to differentiate the two people involed. haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) == Author of GNU malloc, who made the assertion that *if* FreeBSD binaries use more memory than Linux binaries, it may be due to BSD malloc. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.