From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 23:36:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA17962 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:36:43 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA17952 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:36:40 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25954; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:36:38 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA18221 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:36:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA02830 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:34:09 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506240634.IAA02830@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Memory leak somewhere? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:34:08 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506240555.AA01618@physics.su.oz.au> from "David Dawes" at Jun 24, 95 03:55:30 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 851 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > > I've noticed it growing fairly large too. I've tried linking it with > -lgnumalloc (Linux uses GNU malloc by default), and that seems to help > (you can do this using the XFree86 LinkKit) Perhaps i should rather direct this to xfree86-beta: XFree86 used to link the binaries against -lgnumalloc by default in earlier versions. NetBSD still does. Is there any reason why it has been dropped for FreeBSD? (I think gnumalloc falls under LGPL, so the Copyright issues aren't so hard here.) At least for the server, it seems to be a big deal. I used to link mine against the GNU version, and now that i didn't do it for the first time, i'm seeing it growing rather large, too. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)