Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Peter Fraser wrote:

> It's truly a ptiy that so serious a thing is an issue so near to a release. 
> I agree that users should be given a choice especially since some of us run 
> non-threaded apps that spawn a number of processes. From what I have read, 
> wouldn't a squid + squidguard combination rely much more heavily on swap 
> now. If so, I think I will also stick with the 5 series and 6.0 in my 
> environment.

If I read your e-mail right, you're referring to reported issues regarding the 
new user space malloc implementation in 7.x.  However, the 7.0 release is 
still well over a year away.  The new malloc implementation is not present in 
6.x, and I wouldn't expect a merge to the 6.x branch any time soon, if ever. 
Unless you were planning to run 7.x in production in the next year, something 
I generally wouldn't recommend without very careful consideration, I'm not 
sure how this affects your decision regarding FreeBSD versions to run -- 
neither of the upcoming FreeBSD 5.5 or FreeBSD 6.1 releases would be affected 
in any way.  Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding?

Robert N M Watson