Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:23:50PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> And what am i trading off here? I have "/etc/malloc.conf_at_ -> ajz" and my >> memory usage has gone up the roof. My system used to be swap free, and >> now its swapping over 40 MB. Can someone explain to me why this new >> malloc is better? I don't see any speed improvements. >> > > It's a couple of orders of magnitude faster for threaded binaries. > See earlier posts by the author for extensive discussion. > Great, too bad only 2% of my applications are threaded. I just don't see this change very positively, using 40MB of swap, where before was none does not seem to me like a speed improvement. I'm all for better performance of threaded apps, but the trade off seems too high.Received on Fri Feb 17 2006 - 17:34:32 UTC
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