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| author | Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-17 20:21:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-17 20:21:04 +0000 |
| commit | d1675e38f906ae5efde3e5bf9c91387f10db100f (patch) | |
| tree | 4ff47f39653e6765ff2f29eb630cc6c43cef4ad9 /UPDATING | |
| parent | 71469bb38f7440f7bdae7452672091fed324cda3 (diff) | |
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Add an UPDATING entry for the contrib/jemalloc import.
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svn path=/head/; revision=234395
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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index b98b7d0389c2e..99b51c67f1ae9 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: machines to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +20120417: + The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported + as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to + /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, + delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the + new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details + (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL + NAMESPACE section). + 20120328: Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is |