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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Fraser <petros.fraser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern
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Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Thu, February 23, 2006 9:21 pm, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 
> 
>>The most likely culprit is the fact that redzones are enabled at the
>>moment in -CURRENT.
>>
>>On that note, Mike - did you try turning them off?
> 
> 
> Yes, it lowered my swap space usage from 40MB to 1MB. Which is certainly
> better, but even before, my system used no swap.
> 

Hmm, that's not so great - any idea about how much free memory you had 
using the old malloc?

I'm interested, as I run 6.0R on a PIII with 512MB RAM and have (right 
now) 193MB free, that's with Enlightment, Firefox, Thunderbird, xmms, 
and several Eterms running - so needless to say it runs great. I'm 
wondering what the situation will look like with -CURRENT....

regards

Mark