On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 01:39:35 -0800  "R. C. Dowdeswell" wrote:

> [ info about FreeBSD's malloc deleted ]

If you're in a benchmarking and investigative mood, two bookmarks I
saved "to look at one day" are:

	http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
	http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/

The first touts general performance, whilst the second is more of a
debugging malloc.  Might be worth checking out (especially the first).

Another idea that came to mind was either printing out some of the
memory-related getrusage() figures or simply the output of {t,}csh's
"time" command which contains a summary of the same.

Simon.