Asri-unix.403 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!mike@BMD70 Sun Jan 3 23:24:10 1982 Re: More memory problem From: Michael Muuss I can offer a linked-list memory allocater that does reasonable error checking and runs much faster than the original V6 one. It's probably like what Berkeley must (surely have) done for their BSD systems. Send me mail if you want it. I'm not so certain that changing memory allocators will help Peter's problem, but it's worth a shot! By the way, the queued allocator uses a common pool for free entries, so is more reasonable about # of entries needed (which it eats back with link pointers, but...) -Mike ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.