From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 02:28:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3980F16A424; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:28:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jasone@FreeBSD.org) Received: from lh.synack.net (lh.synack.net [204.152.188.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B45943E9E; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jasone@FreeBSD.org) Received: by lh.synack.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 211AA5E48F7; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.168.201] (moscow-cuda-gen2-68-64-60-20.losaca.adelphia.net [68.64.60.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lh.synack.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681835E48BC; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:01:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F52E61.10007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:01:05 -0800 From: Jason Evans User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <200601301652.16237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200602011424.57722.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200602162202.51872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200602162202.51872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on lh.synack.net X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans , Michael Nottebrock Subject: Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:28:17 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 04:55, Jason Evans wrote: > >>On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >>>Is there a simple way to revert to the old malloc? Just back out >>>malloc.c? >> >>Yes, you can revert to revision 1.92 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c . > > I finally got around to trying this and it seems that reverting it has reduced > KDE's memory consumption considerably.. > > Perhaps it's allocation pattern is particularly pathological? > > I can supply debugging information about it if you tell me what you need. First, can you please assure me that this is an increase in resident memory, rather than just virtual memory? Can you tell me which programs are particularly bad, and if you are using them in any particular ways that are important to reproducing the high memory usage? I don't generally use KDE, so any details you provide are likely to help. Thanks, Jason