From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 8:42:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C47337B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from netlx010.civ.utwente.nl (netlx010.civ.utwente.nl [130.89.1.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AEC43ED8 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r.s.a.vandomburg@student.utwente.nl) Received: from wit377002 (wit377002.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.107]) by netlx010.civ.utwente.nl (8.11.4/HKD) with SMTP id h0QGgab20397 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:42:36 +0100 From: "Roderick van Domburg" To: Subject: Tuning MALLOC_OPTIONS Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:43:32 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I was wondering exactly which malloc options: - are considered safe and should be set; - which are debugging options and may be turned off in 5.0; and - which are hazardous but can be tried for maximum performance. I'm thinking a simple 'A' is the safe and fast route, and 'AR' is the way to go for low-to-medium-memory systems? Regards, Roderick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message