Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:00:35 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: sam <sam.wun@tech-21.com.hk> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: Weird performances: -CURRENT vs 5.2.1 Message-ID: <20040819090034.GC20058@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <4124573F.50403@tech-21.com.hk> References: <20040818200530.GA88370@abigail.blackend.org> <20040818205029.GA48028@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.1.2.0.0.20040818170232.05773880@64.7.153.2> <20040819072614.GA19508@abigail.blackend.org> <4124573F.50403@tech-21.com.hk>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:31:11PM +0800, sam wrote: > >And then do a: > > > >ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf > > > > > This looks like a trick. "aj" is actually not existed in the system. > You meant created a malloc.conf pointing to a non-exist aj for the > improvment of the malloc operation? > > root@fbsd [3:31pm] [...i386/conf]# ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2 Aug 19 15:31 /etc/malloc.conf@ -> aj > root@fbsd [3:34pm] [...i386/conf]# > > root@fbsd [3:34pm] [...i386/conf]# ls -l /etc/aj > ls: /etc/aj: No such file or directory > root@fbsd [3:34pm] [...i386/conf]# > It's just a way to pass flags to malloc system, it's not interpreted as a file; an environment variable (MALLOC_OPTIONS) could be used for the same purpose. You just have to be sure to not "mistype" your flags as I did recently :) Marc
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