Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:39:07 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi Cc: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD hackerlist <FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: dlmalloc Message-ID: <9507041539.AA07774@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 1995 07:29:34 PDT." <199507041429.RAA19837@vinkku.hut.fi>
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In message <199507041429.RAA19837@vinkku.hut.fi>, you write: >John Utz writes: > > I recall reading a report on this list of someone using dlmalloc ( doug > > lea malloc? ) with good success. > >I have been using it about 2-3 months (I replaced libc/stdlib/malloc.c >with Doug Lea's malloc-2.5.3b.c and then did make world). So far only >two system programs has failed and both have been fixed some time ago. > >I also use it with XFree86-3.1.1 (X-server and binaries) with very >good success. Performance is far better than with system malloc >altough GNU-malloc is sometimes better still. Regarding mallocs, I've had good success with making malloc into a shared library, then substituing the library via LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime...to use/benchmark different mallocs (I've used the bsd malloc, gnu malloc and Gray Watson's dmalloc library this way...) I've done this on sunos and linux/elf (any problem with doing it on freebsd?) marty
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