Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:15:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: growing X server processes Message-ID: <199512150915.KAA00742@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512142251.XAA01370@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 14, 95 11:51:02 pm
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As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Probably a FAQ but: why is XF_S3 so much more memory hungry then > XF_SVGA? I used an old ET4000 before and it did not grow nearly as > much as the S3 I use now./ > > There has also been much debate about using gnumalloc. Was that just for > building the clients and/or for the server? Mainly for the server. I believe you're still @ 2.0.5 and XFree86 3.1.1. The S3 server was known to eat up mucho memory, and that's what has finally caused the debate (and perhaps triggered phkmalloc :). XFree86 3.1.2 uses gnumalloc by default, and XFree86 is moving towards their own malloc for the server (it's already in the latest beta, and it seems to work fine). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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