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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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	John Indra <maverick@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [020313 22:43] wrote:
> 
> But if somebody wants to try to code this optimization, I'll be more
> than happy to review the result.  I just don't expect it to do much
> in "real-life" as opposed to "silly benchmark" situations.

Have you thought about issuing a madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) after the
brk/mmap call in malloc, at least doing it when it's called via
realloc, this might get rid of the superfolous (sp?) page faults
that David Greenman reported.

-Alfred

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