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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!pegasus.thisco.com!pubxfer.news.psi.net!dan.emsphone.com!not-for-mail From: dan@dan.emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ircd leak in FreeBSD Date: 31 Jul 1996 03:45:20 GMT Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4tmksg$415@client2.news.psi.net> References: <4tln4t$5e7@uhura.phoenix.net> <4tlsrb$ic4@news.inc.net> Reply-To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.67.51.101 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960618] Jeremy Nelson <nelson@cs.uwp.edu> wrote: > Lucas Wolenczak <leigh@phoenix.net> wrote: > [ ircd chokes on freebsd ] > > Use the gnumalloc library. Should delay the inevitable. > ircd is a memory hog anyhow, broken as designed. I forget when phkmalloc went into BSD (Sep. 95 / after 2.1.0-RELEASE?) but you might want to try pulling malloc.c from 2.1.5-RELEASE or 2.2. It's written to perform much better than gnumalloc under swapping conditions, and performs similarly to gnumalloc otherwise. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com