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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:34:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Memory leak somewhere?
Message-ID:  <199506240634.IAA02830@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199506240555.AA01618@physics.su.oz.au> from "David Dawes" at Jun 24, 95 03:55:30 pm

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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. ;-)



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