From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 24 11:54:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA21130 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 11:54:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA21105 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 11:54:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13138; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 20:53:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA22768 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 20:53:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA09937 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 20:16:09 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506241816.UAA09937@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Memory leak somewhere? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 20:16:07 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506241446.JAA03561@id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Jun 24, 95 09:46:53 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1005 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rich Murphey wrote: > > When FreeBSD had two separate malloc shared libraries we had > a XFree86 release which could use either malloc library simply > by swapping the names. Substituting libgnumalloc.so.1.1 for > libmalloc.so.1.1 worked just fine for the server. But this > was only my individual testing and nothing rigorous. > > We don't really know whether the problems last year using > gnumalloc were due to valid differences in the API or > unwitting problems in the server itself. But we can start > beta testing with gnumalloc and see how it goes. Rich Hmm, except for XFree86 3.1.1, i've always modified my xf86site.def to use -lgmalloc (i simply forgot it when re-vamping the last official version from scratch). I've never noticed any problems. (And due to the modification of the site.def, this has been inherited by all clients, too.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)