Re: Memory use: returning freed memory to the pool

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:12:41 +0100 (MET)

> 4. Xinside's server uses their own version of malloc/free, which actually
> unmaps memory which has been freed, once it exceeds a certain limit or
> something.

XFree86 does the same since 3.1.2B (it was even included in 3.1.2 sources but
not enabled in thr original binaries bacause it wansn't tested very well that time).
so just get XFree86 3.2 (a good idea for several other reasons too...)

Harald

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