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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:34:50 -0500
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Subject:   Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern	CURRENT
Message-ID:  <43F6174A.7060801@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060217013039.GA31540@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060215024339.N22450@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <43F29BF5.4060300@freebsd.org> <20060216123548.GA35910@uk.tiscali.com> <20060216135138.GA16669@flame.pc> <43F525A6.3080701@rogers.com> <20060217013039.GA31540@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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@ -> 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.




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