From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 11:14:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC86937B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6185A43ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from user-0cev12d.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.132.77] helo=bluerondo.a.la.turk) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18bmoL-0004W2-02 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:14:50 -0800 Received: (qmail 2650 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2003 19:14:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:14:46 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Dan Nelson Cc: Kenneth Culver , Atte Peltomaki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE) Message-ID: <20030123191446.GA2602@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <20030123123522.C9068-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20030123181628.GA2185@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030123185657.GB54656@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123185657.GB54656@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 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 Dan Nelson wrote: > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. > R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. That's not what the malloc(3) man page suggests -- R seems to have nothing to do with A or J. Perhaps, however, the improvement I see is due to turning off A and J (implicitly, ie by not specifying them)? - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message