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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:05:19 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/usbd usbd.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007171203340.4011-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000716185255.J51462@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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> >     AJ ?  Guys, 'J' as a default to malloc.conf is a disaster for performance.
> >     There are many programs which allocate large buffers and only use 
> >     small portions of them.  We *CANNOT* ship with 'J' as a default 
> >     for malloc.
> > 
> >     'A', ok.  'AH' is even better.  'AJ'?  no way.
> 
> The change was made to weed out bugs and will be ripped out before any release is
> made. This would be similar to including INVARIANTS and company in GENERIC until
> 5.0-RC.

One problem is that the performance hit incurred by some change is less
obvious and too easy to be blamed on the chagne to malloc. So it might
be an idea to remove the J once in a while and have a look at
performance again. After all, most of the problems are going to be found
within the first few weeks of switching the flag on.

Nick

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