Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:49:03 -0800 From: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT Message-ID: <1091E3C1-1E93-4030-9097-D28C780F9D44@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <43F6174A.7060801@rogers.com> References: <20060215024339.N22450@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <43F29BF5.4060300@freebsd.org> <20060216123548.GA35910@uk.tiscali.com> <20060216135138.GA16669@flame.pc> <43F525A6.3080701@rogers.com> <20060217013039.GA31540@xor.obsecurity.org> <43F6174A.7060801@rogers.com>
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On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:23:50PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: >> >>> And what am i trading off here? I have "/etc/malloc.conf@ -> ajz" >>> and my >>> memory usage has gone up the roof. My system used to be swap >>> free, and now its swapping over 40 MB. Can someone explain to me >>> why this new malloc is better? I don't see any speed improvements. >> >> It's a couple of orders of magnitude faster for threaded binaries. >> See earlier posts by the author for extensive discussion. > > Great, too bad only 2% of my applications are threaded. I just > don't see this change very positively, using 40MB of swap, where > before was none does not seem to me like a speed improvement. I'm > all for better performance of threaded apps, but the trade off > seems too high. Are redzones enabled? (They are turned on by default in CURRENT.) You can check by reading the output from something like: MALLOC_OPTIONS=P ls Keep in mind that they use up substantial extra memory -- 32 bytes per allocation. Unless you have disabled redzones, you should expect much higher memory usage with jemalloc than with phkmalloc. Thanks, Jasonhome | help
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