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Date:      1 Jul 2003 03:16:08 -0000
From:      "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ten thousand small processes
Message-ID:  <20030701031608.11066.qmail@cr.yp.to>
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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



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