On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: > 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. I did some quick experiments last night, where I booted a -current system with phkmalloc, then with jemalloc. The total increase in resident memory was negligible, on the order of kilobytes. JasonReceived on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 20:07:45 UTC
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