Re: memguard monitoring of more than 1 memory_type?

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:01:21 +0300
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:31:52AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Can memguard monitor the usage of more that one memory_type?

>From the memguard(9) manpage:

     Currently, MemGuard can only take over malloc(), realloc() and free() for
     a particular malloc type.

> I added 
>   vm.memguard.desc="filedesc"
>   vm.memguard.desc="DEVFS1"
>   vm.memguard.desc="ptys"
> to /boot/loader.conf under the assumption that all three
> types would be monitored.  However, I see
> 
> troutmask:kargl[207] sysctl -a | grep memg
> vm.memguard.desc: ptys
> vm.memguard.divisor: 10
> 
> which shows only the last loader.conf line is effective.

Each assignment to a tunable or sysctl overwrites
its former value, like in a programming language.

-- 
Yar
Received on Tue Feb 07 2006 - 18:01:29 UTC

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