On Fri, 16 May 1997, Oskar Pearson wrote:
> > >> 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?
> >
> > As far as I know FreeBSD's malloc implementation (for 2.2 and higher) is
> > called phkmalloc (PHK are the initials of the author). I'm not sure
> > whether dlmalloc is another name for the same thing.
> dlmalloc isn't the same - DL also stand of the author's initals,
> Doug Lea ... I guess I was wrong about them using his malloc then.
> http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote phkmalloc, and it is favoured over gnumalloc for
squid. The FreeBSD compilation package for squid disables gnumalloc for
FreeBSD 2.2 and higher. Gnumalloc is needed by squid for FreeBSD 2.1.x.
Danny
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