From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 14 22:29:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [205.130.220.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961B737B404 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3F5T5Y19355 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:29:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:29:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberson To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Please enable 'options MALLOC_PROFILE'! Message-ID: <20020415012409.B62285-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This will keep statistics on the effeciency of our current malloc bucket sizes. After some time of general usage please do a 'sysctl kern.mprof > file' and mail the file to me. Please include the following information: Primary Usage: workstation/server/web server/etc. etc. Architecture: x86/alpha/sparc64/powerpc/ia64 Hostname: 'hostname' Physical mem: 'sysctl hw.physmem' This will allow me to select new malloc bucket sizes that will be more memory effecient for a wide range of loads. The more folks who contribute the better our memory footprint will be. Thanks, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message