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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:33:09 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject:   Re: lzo2 shows insane speed gap
Message-ID:  <4964F565.2080201@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4961294D.8080200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <gjbf7c$hbm$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>	<Pine.GSO.4.64.0812291512490.22968@zeno.ucsd.edu>	<20081230004747.GA55542@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>	<20081230020524.2563a6ac@gluon>	<gjd77i$1h19$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <4961294D.8080200@FreeBSD.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running 8.0-CURRENT amd64 here on a Turion64 X2 machine. Without
>>> malloc debugging (malloc.conf -> aj) 'make test' takes 25s; after
>>> removing malloc.conf thus turning on debugging, it takes over 10
>>> minutes.
>> ...
>>
>> But still.  Two orders of magnitude?  That is a pathological case.
> 
> Probably it means that lzo2 is doing pathological numbers of mallocs.

Rather, the lzo2 test suite.  Test suites do tend
to hammer malloc() pretty hard.  I see similar variations
for the libarchive test suite with malloc debugging.

Tim



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