Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Re: [tuxnes-dev] Steve's memory patch

[Jeroen Ruigrok/A. <as...@wx...>]

[sorry for the rediculous late replies]

-On [20010227 20:03], spi...@my... (spi...@my...) wrote:
>What's broken in BSD?

Mostly #include/#define stuff.  Plus I like anal compiler settings to
get more ANSI portability.  Apply large clue before fixing though. ;)

>For some reason we are allocating about 20 megs worth, and only really
>using 3... It just seems to be quite sloppy to me :-)

Normally malloc() prereserves memory but doesn't really allocate it
right away.  Doing the latter would cause immediate thrasing [be it
paging or swapping] in the OS.  So whilst we may seem to allocate a
tonload of memory, we only use a fraction. :)

>What I did for my patches was just grep through the source for FIXME's,
>then fix them(I think ;-).. Let me know is you found anything nasty
>from those patches..  The memory handling should be fine, don't see any
>problems there... I wonder if the defines react wierd on BSD?

Just look at some of my recent list of *cough* fixes.

Please let me know if I broke stuff on Linux.

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