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)
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Bruce A. Mah 2007-06-19 15:08:43 +00:00
parent 8dac5046be
commit dc1d6f376a
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=170953

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@ -1712,7 +1712,14 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
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.</para>
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 <literal>datasize</literal> resource limit
has little practical effect for typical applications. The
<literal>vmemoryuse</literal> resource limit, however, can be
used to bound the total virtual memory used by a process, as
described in &man.limits.1;.</para>
<para>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"</programlisting>
1.0.3 to 1.0.4.</para>
<para>GNU <application>Diffutils</application> has been updated
to 2.8.7.</para>
from 2.7 to 2.8.7.</para>
<para><application>DRM</application> has
been updated to a snapshot from DRI CVS as of 20060517.