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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Alternative malloc ?
Date: 16 Jan 1997 13:54:57 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5bkv1a$r8e@mc5.mcnet.ch>,
Benoit Rossier <Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch> wrote:
> See at address http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/Malloc.html
> This is a list of malloc implementations.
The phkmalloc, used in FreeBSD 2.2 and up is not listed here...
> Try with gnumalloc which is in FreeBSD. It seems to be better than the
> standard malloc.
Yes, stay away from the malloc used in 2.1.*. It is fast but consumme far
more memory than needed and never give it back to the system.
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