From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 17:44:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA24368 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24353 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:44:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA27990; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:20:53 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603070150.MAA27990@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Before and after the cure (was Re: malloc upgrade) To: ahill@interconnect.com.au (Anthony Hill) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:20:52 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Anthony Hill" at Mar 7, 96 12:08:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Anthony Hill stands accused of saying: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > The XFree people are working on a custom allocator specifically tuned to > > the way that X uses memory. You can build the XFree servers using the > > stock malloc (the current distributions), with gnumalloc (which is better) > > or with phkmalloc (the 'new' malloc Luigi is talking about). > > Unfortunatly, being fairly new to this stuff, I dont know how to go about > building XFree using a different malloc. It seems as though lots of Grab the XFree86 server build kit, and edit the Makefile. The buildkit's on the CD. > Anthony -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[