> From: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" <pe...@bsdly.net> > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:10:41 +0100 > > 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.
Please do!
