Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Mike Jakubik wrote: >> On Thu, February 23, 2006 9:21 pm, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> >> >>> The most likely culprit is the fact that redzones are enabled at the >>> moment in -CURRENT. >>> >>> On that note, Mike - did you try turning them off? >> >> >> Yes, it lowered my swap space usage from 40MB to 1MB. Which is certainly >> better, but even before, my system used no swap. >> > > Hmm, that's not so great - any idea about how much free memory you had > using the old malloc? > > I'm interested, as I run 6.0R on a PIII with 512MB RAM and have (right > now) 193MB free, that's with Enlightment, Firefox, Thunderbird, xmms, > and several Eterms running - so needless to say it runs great. I'm > wondering what the situation will look like with -CURRENT.... Nope, and i don't really feel like backing out malloc and recompiling world now :P Basically, i had bit more free memory, but i suggest you stick with 6.x, unless you don't mind testing a development branch.Received on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 04:02:11 UTC
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