Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ian Holsman wrote: > > > we did some testing ~1 year ago with the different thread library on > > solaris 8 and didn't notice any real significant difference, > > libmtmalloc.so on the other hand was a pretty big win. > > Were the mtmalloc tests before or after the big bucket > allocator freelist patch?
Before > I'd have expected big wins with mtmalloc before the patch, > but not so much afterward. I agree. The last time I checked (by attaching gdb and setting a breakpoint on malloc), the httpd almost never had to call malloc once the first few requests filled up the freelist with reusable buckets. mtmalloc will help, though, if you're calling any third party libraries that use malloc/free. Brian
