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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:20:50 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lzo2 shows insane speed gap
Message-ID:  <gjd77i$1h19$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <gjbf7c$hbm$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0812291512490.22968@zeno.ucsd.edu> <20081230004747.GA55542@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <20081230020524.2563a6ac@gluon>

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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.

Wow!  That.  Is.  It.

Toggling malloc debugging option J makes the "slow" machines "fast"
and vice versa.

> > Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6 GHz,      FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT amd64   ~60 min

19 seconds.

I guess that falls under the "obvious" configuration differences
to check, but since it usually doesn't cause a significant slowdown
I completely forgot about it.  Embarrassing.

But still.  Two orders of magnitude?  That is a pathological case.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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