From dc1d6f376a31f08845b73bd2d4053eaa97704bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:08:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated release notes: Note that diffutils was formerly version 2.7 [1]. Add some more verbage with respect to jemalloc and resource limits [2]. Submitted by: delphij [1] Collaboration with: jasone [2] Approved by: re (implicit) --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 1a813fb55a3..af58758da07 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -1712,7 +1712,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" programs. Due to the use of different algorithms and data structures, jemalloc may expose some previously-unknown bugs in userland code, although most of the &os; base system and common - ports have been tested and/or fixed. + ports have been tested and/or fixed. Note that jemalloc uses + &man.mmap.2; to obtain memory and only uses &man.sbrk.2; under + limited circumstances (and then only for 32-bit architectures). + As a result, the datasize resource limit + has little practical effect for typical applications. The + vmemoryuse resource limit, however, can be + used to bound the total virtual memory used by a process, as + described in &man.limits.1;. The &man.mdconfig.8; utility now supports producing device listings formatted as XML. Currently, the @@ -2136,7 +2143,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" 1.0.3 to 1.0.4. GNU Diffutils has been updated - to 2.8.7. + from 2.7 to 2.8.7. DRM has been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.