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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD a memory hog ?
Date: 5 Apr 1996 00:03:14 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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infi@dorsai.org (Igigi International) writes:
> 
>   Speaking of recompiling the Xserver to use (pk?)malloc  (sorry, I'm not 
> 100% sure of my recollection) would someone in the distribution group be 
> willing to apply tht malloc to the Xservers or at least make it a 
> seperate package for those using X.

Pick /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c out of -current, build a shared
lib out of it, and name it /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.2.0.  All the
XFree86 servers and applications are linked shared, so they would pick
up phkmalloc instead.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)