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

[Peter Fraser]

On 2/23/06, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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



Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression from a previous
post that this would be inplemented in the new 6.1 release. Apparently I
misread. I can now breathe a sigh of relief and  migrate to 6.1 when
released. Thanks again.

PeterF