Re: comparison of the NOVM version

James R Grinter wrote:
>
> On Thu 15 May, 1997, Anthony Baxter <arb@connect.com.au> wrote:
> >still have to page the stuff back in... hmm, has anyone looked at using
> >Doug Lea's malloc with squid? <URL:http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html>
>
> I've been using it with my Irix caches. I think it's also the malloc
> that Linux users are using for their gnumalloc - because it was written
> for g++ as I understand it.
Naah - dlmalloc is included in the newer versions of libc (for linux)
but when you compile libc it asks which you want, sortof giving the impression
that dl-malloc is better, but not as well tested (junk)

> I'm not sure it helps much, and it gives very screwy mallocinfo percentages.
hmm. As far as I know the new FreeBSD libc's all use dlmalloc.... Is anyone
out there using FreeBSD 2.2 having problems?

        Oskar

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