From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 07:29:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA26168 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:29:58 -0700 Received: from vinkku.hut.fi (vode@vinkku.hut.fi [130.233.245.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA26162 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:29:53 -0700 Received: (from vode@localhost) by vinkku.hut.fi (8.6.11/8.6.7) id RAA19837; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:29:34 +0300 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:29:34 +0300 Message-Id: <199507041429.RAA19837@vinkku.hut.fi> From: Kai Vorma To: John Utz Cc: FreeBSD hackerlist Subject: Re: dlmalloc In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Utz writes: > I recall reading a report on this list of someone using dlmalloc ( doug > lea malloc? ) with good success. I have been using it about 2-3 months (I replaced libc/stdlib/malloc.c with Doug Lea's malloc-2.5.3b.c and then did make world). So far only two system programs has failed and both have been fixed some time ago. I also use it with XFree86-3.1.1 (X-server and binaries) with very good success. Performance is far better than with system malloc altough GNU-malloc is sometimes better still. Perhaps someone would commit it to 2.2 developement branch so that more people would test it.. ..vode PS. There is a note in the comments that it is preliminary version and unreleased. I asked the author and he said that it is very stable and he has just forgotten to lift the comment and increment the version number.