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Date:      26 Jun 2003 21:26:59 -0000
From:      "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ten thousand small processes
Message-ID:  <20030626212659.51367.qmail@cr.yp.to>
References:  <20030626025029.71392.qmail@cr.yp.to> <200306260515.h5Q5FhPF020045@bitblocks.com>

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Bakul Shah writes:
> Instead of complaining about wasting 78 megabytes and arguing
> about why various proposed solutions fall short and why your
> way is the best, why don't you come up with a patch that
> saves space for small programs?

Funny. Seems to me that I keep making concrete suggestions---including a
detailed proposal for giving more space to malloc()---and the answer is
consistently ``We really don't care about per-process overhead.'' What's
the benefit of a patch for people who don't even see the problem?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago



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