Bug 227998 - make.conf(5) contains outdated statement about MALLOC_PRODUCTION (A and J options)
Summary: make.conf(5) contains outdated statement about MALLOC_PRODUCTION (A and J opt...
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Keywords: easy, needs-qa, regression
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Reported: 2018-05-05 15:18 UTC by Rebecca Cran
Modified: 2018-05-06 20:34 UTC (History)
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Description Rebecca Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-05 15:18:01 UTC 
make.conf(5) contains the following statement about MALLOC_PRODUCTION:

     MALLOC_PRODUCTION
                   (bool) Set this to disable assertions and statistics
                   gathering in malloc(3).  It also defaults the A and J
                   runtime options to off.  Disabled by default on -CURRENT.

I believe the A and J options were from the old malloc implementation (phkmalloc?), while FreeBSD has used jemalloc for many years, which uses a different set of options.