Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:19:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Subject: Re: Removing limits from malloc(9) Message-ID: <p0510151ab8dcd5427611@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020412132950.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20020412132950.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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At 1:29 PM -0400 4/12/02, John Baldwin wrote: >On 12-Apr-2002 Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 1:58 AM -0400 4/12/02, Jeff Roberson wrote: >>>This is more along the lines of what I was looking for. I >>>don't like the limits but I wasn't sure if anyone found them >>>to be useful. So far I have heard 2 votes for getting rid >>>of limits, and no votes for keeping them. >> >> My earlier comment was meant to be a weak vote for the limits. >> "weak" in the sense that I would like to keep them, but that >> I do not feel very strongly about it. Consider it more like >> half-a-vote for them. Even with that, I wouldn't mind if limits >> were only available as a malloc option (set via /etc/malloc.conf) >> and not done by default. > >These are limits for kernel malloc(9), not userland malloc(3). >These two malloc's are entirely unrelated. Ah. Okay, reduce my vote to 1/10th of a vote for limits... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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