On 01/22/16 22:46, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Firefox makes a lot of concurrent malloc(3) calls. The locking to > make malloc(3) thread-safe is a bit...suboptimal. This diff makes > things better by using a mutex instead of spinlock. If you're running > Firefox you want to try it; it makes video watchable on some machines. > If you're not running Firefox you want to try it; to make sure it > doesn't break things.
Running this since early Saturday, Firefox is definitely more responsive than earlier. I haven't tried running other resource hogs such as LibreOffice with several large documents, but I guess I could try that too if it's a relevant scenario. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
