Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:04:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc(9) performance Message-ID: <3DC983D9.B94F1474@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211061120360.15163-100000@root.org>
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Nate Lawson wrote: > (*) For me, fast enough means sustaining 100000 small (400 byte) and big > (64k) allocations/frees per second (one every 10 us). Maximum memory in > use at any point in time would be a few MB. Latency is my main concern > and memory fragmentation much less so. For me, the number is closer to 600,000: theoretically, this should be the combined mbuf and tcpcb connection struct allocation rate, given the maximum possible connection per second rate on a Gigabit ethernet's packets-per-secon throughput. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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