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Date:      Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:26:40 +0100
From:      "Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge@nedprod.com>
To:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread aware malloc
Message-ID:  <425EA7D0.20279.12A9E357@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <425E4B01.2020104@fer.hr>
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On 14 Apr 2005 at 12:50, Ivan Voras wrote:

> > I finally have a native 64 bit platform which I just bought, I'm
> > just waiting on the release of v5.4. I'll post benchmarks here when
> > I know, but I'm still expecting an order of magnitude difference. 
> 
> For performance reasons, RELENG_5_4 in the current state will be the
> same as 5.4-RELEASE[1] - no way re@ would allow serious commits to it
> :) If you're planning doing benchmarks on real hardware (not vmware),
> which would be most interesting, you might as well start doing it now
> (or do the linux part now, do preliminary 5.4, and update to
> 5.4-release when it's ready, maybe repeat benchmarks)

My university does not permit use of CVS or CVSup (firewalled), so 
I'll be waiting for the release.

> Also, to avoid flames, you might want to run the results through
> ministat (/usr/src/tools/tools/ministat) :)

Useful.

> [1] : You might need to exclude debugging facilities from kernel -
> witness & invariants mostly, and do 'ln -fs jrz /etc/malloc.conf'

Noted.

Cheers,
Niall





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