> 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? Hmm, not sure it was unbounded, but it was certainly consuming a lot of extra memory. Note that with the debugging off top shows it as.. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 19876 root 1 100 0 315M 136M select 18:16 13.67% Xorg so it's hardly small. > 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. Hmm, I thought touching CFLAGS in make.conf was verboten.. If not then I will use it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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