Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

From: Jason Evans <jasone_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:00:35 -0800
[Apologies for the duplicate emails.]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> [ fixed CC ]
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:14, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 08:25, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>> I did have a kernel from before the new malloc and it still seemed
>>>> quite sluggish. I remember being stuck because a commit to the AGP
>>>> driver on 20/12/05 prevented the nvidia driver building.
>>>
>>> new malloc = userland, not kernel.
>>
>> Yeah but I don't install world without first doing install kernel :)
>
> I think I was crack smoking here..
> Recompiling the new libc with NO_MALLOC_EXTRAS reduced the memory  
> usage
> *significantly*.

Yes, I'd expect the memory usage to decrease if you build with  
NO_MALLOC_EXTRAS, since redzone overhead is 32 bytes per object.  Do  
you see any evidence of unbounded X memory usage though?

> A make.conf knob would be highly appreciated here :)

Why not just append to CFLAGS in make.conf?  NO_MALLOC_EXTRAS is a  
development-only flag, since the malloc debug features will be  
disabled for releases, so a make.conf knob would have no relevance to  
releases.  Unless there's serious worry about cpp namespace  
pollution, I don't understand the need for the patch you provided.

Thanks,
Jason
Received on Tue Jan 31 2006 - 05:00:43 UTC

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