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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-12-30 07:35:03 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-12-30 07:35:03 +0000
commit4e0d874b11e5145cb5d7b9def67fccad9fdc8b13 (patch)
treed7134ea8c68fa160ff596d2f162007ecd1c703bc /share/man/man5
parent8dbd63d7471b17a6830a1628e979eb4f4cc7a445 (diff)
The `F' option no longer disables delayed freeing; from kshe
Also, fix a verb-noun mixup; ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/malloc.conf.510
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5
index 231f3addd2c..ba1e1ee2cc8 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.conf.5,v 1.12 2017/09/23 15:13:34 otto Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.conf.5,v 1.13 2017/12/30 07:35:02 otto Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 23 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 30 2017 $
.Dt MALLOC.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ Increase the junk level by one if it is smaller than 2.
.Dq Less junking .
Decrease the junk level by one if it is larger than 0.
Junking writes some junk bytes into the area allocated.
-Currently junk is bytes of 0xdb when allocating;
+Junk is bytes of 0xdb when allocating;
freed chunks are filled with 0xdf.
By default the junk level is 1: small chunks are always junked
and the first part of pages is junked after free.
-After a delay (if not switched off by the F option),
+After a delay,
the filling pattern is validated and the process is aborted if the pattern
was modified.
If the junk level is zero, no junking is performed.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ malloc_options = "X";
Note that this will cause code that is supposed to handle
out-of-memory conditions gracefully to abort instead.
.It Cm <
-.Dq Half the cache size .
+.Dq Halve the cache size .
Decrease the size of the free page cache by a factor of two.
.It Cm >
.Dq Double the cache size .