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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
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.\" |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.55 2008/11/02 08:50:41 otto Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.56 2008/11/02 14:42:01 otto Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 2 2008 $ |
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.Dt MALLOC 3 |
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cause a segmentation fault upon access. |
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.It Cm G |
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.Dq Guard . |
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Enable guard pages and chunk randomization. |
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Enable guard pages. |
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Each page size or larger allocation is followed by a guard page that will |
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cause a segmentation fault upon any access. |
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Smaller than page size chunks are returned in a random order. |
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.It Cm H |
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.Dq Hint . |
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Pass a hint to the kernel about pages we don't use. |
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Increase the size of the free page cache by a factor of two. |
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So to set a systemwide reduction of cache size and coredumps on problems: |
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.Li ln -s 'G<' /etc/malloc.conf |
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So to set a systemwide reduction of cache size and use guard pages: |
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.Dl # ln -s 'G\*(Lt' /etc/malloc.conf |
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The |
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