From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 12 23:11:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EC637C3FD; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 02:10:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Thomas D. Dean" , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent -current Performance Drop? In-Reply-To: <2461.963339806@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >I seem to see somewhat of a performance drop in the past week. > > You should have read the commit messages :-) > > I enabled malloc flags AJ by default, this has a performance > cost. It will be turned off for releases of course. > > It has already exposed on bug (see peters commit). ^- Multiple bugs, thankyouverymuch :) > You can disable it if you want to run benchmarks: If you run a desktop system (need good response) and aren't willing to take the large performance hit, too. Note it's a large performance hit when you tend to run a LOT of stuff and always dig into swap very quickly. I imagine for most people, the performance drop isn't nearly as high, so they can live with it :) > ln -sf aj /etc/malloc.conf > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message