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From: Brooks Davis (brooksone-eyed-alien.net)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 09:07:16 CST

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    On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:57:55PM +0100, Oleg Cherkasov wrote:
    >
    > Yes, you are right, it is better to keep it out of the kernel. But except
    > having /etc/malloc.conf, is it better to have a shell variable MEMORY_RANDOM
    > or MALLOC_CONF? In this case just 'weak' services can be run with that
    > option on. We still do not know how will it affect performance ... because
    > it will be additional cycles during memory allocation for every single
    > *alloc() call. Some software could be very aggressive using malloc(), who
    > knows.

    The MALLOC_OPTIONS variable would allow this. Please RFTM before
    posting.

    -- Brooks 

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