Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:28:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: John Indra <maverick@office.naver.co.id> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE) Message-ID: <20020314052810.GH74829@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020314104525.B8244@office.naver.co.id> References: <20020314104525.B8244@office.naver.co.id>
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* John Indra <maverick@office.naver.co.id> [020313 19:47] wrote: > Dear all... > > This morning I found a very interesting mail. All of you can see it from: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1669241+0+current/freebsd-questions FreeBSD 5.0 has (being a developer release) has special diagnostics turned on in malloc that causes it to take more time to do allocations. see the malloc(3) manpage and make sure to disable these features if doing benchmarks. I'm sorry I can't find out all the other tweaks needed to get the best performance out of 5.x, perhaps the -doc people can point us the way. niether the tuning(7) manpage nor http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html describe this... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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