Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:28:47 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, John Indra <maverick@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE) Message-ID: <20020314092847.GL74829@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <41161.1016088004@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20020313222518.J27616@nexus.root.com> <41161.1016088004@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [020313 22:43] wrote: > > But if somebody wants to try to code this optimization, I'll be more > than happy to review the result. I just don't expect it to do much > in "real-life" as opposed to "silly benchmark" situations. Have you thought about issuing a madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) after the brk/mmap call in malloc, at least doing it when it's called via realloc, this might get rid of the superfolous (sp?) page faults that David Greenman reported. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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