From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 20:15:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D8237B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stoneport.math.uic.edu (stoneport.math.uic.edu [131.193.178.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 857A943FCB for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djb-dsn-1057029368.11066@cr.yp.to) Received: (qmail 11067 invoked by uid 1017); 1 Jul 2003 03:16:08 -0000 Date: 1 Jul 2003 03:16:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20030701031608.11066.qmail@cr.yp.to> Automatic-Legal-Notices: See http://cr.yp.to/mailcopyright.html. From: "D. J. Bernstein" To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: <20030626025029.71392.qmail@cr.yp.to> <200306260515.h5Q5FhPF020045@bitblocks.com> <20030626212659.51367.qmail@cr.yp.to> <20030630233353.GG96753@perrin.int.nxad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: ten thousand small processes X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 03:15:38 -0000 Sean Chittenden writes: > reduce the malloc cache to 0 Measure. Don't speculate. Other people's proposals were inadequate (alloca, threads) or dangerous (sbrk), but at least they were related to the problem. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago