Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 02:36:07 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, syko@sykotik.org Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc Message-ID: <199808061636.CAA00012@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Apache uses them quite frequently. And this could make it very costly on >large webservers. Where I work, we have hundreds of connections to some >of our webservers per minute. We also use cgi scripts very frequently, >and these use *env* functions quite frequently as well. The env functions are already costly. They use dumb linear searches and malloc(), and don't alloc a little more than necessary so that the environment can grow a little without reallocation. Garbage collection need not be equally pessimal. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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