On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:23 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:52 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I've just joined the list and have only poked about drizzle a bit, so please
>> don't beat me up too much.
>>
>> On 10/10/08 14:51, Monty Taylor wrote:
>>
>> (snip...)
>>>
>>> Coming soon:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> (snip...)
>>>
>>>  Examine HOARD allocator
>>>
>>
>> Is HOARD already used by Drizzle?
>> One other worth investigating that has a lot of miles on it already
>> (especially in terms of scaling to lots of cores/threads and handling cache
>> alignment) is libumem.  It too is portable (ported from OpenSolaris by the
>> OmniTI guys) and is also a dropin replacement for standard allocators.  It's
>> newer than HOARD in that it has only been available in userspace since
>> Solaris 9, but it's a port of the original multithreaded slab allocator
>> which has been around since the mid '90s.  In addition to it's
>> speed/concurrency, it has a bunch of things to simplify development.
>>
>> Two quick references:
>> https://labs.omniti.com/trac/portableumem/
>> http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/solaris_10_top_11_20
>>
>> Anyway, if you're going to study baseline/HOARD, it could be worth looking
>> at baseline/HOARD/libumem.
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>> --
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>
> I would be interested in the results if anyone runs perf tests for
> Drizzle on a server with more than 4 cores and Hoard or libumem. Using
> tcmalloc with MySQL makes a huge difference for the oltp readonly
> sysbench test on that setup.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/SmpPerformance
>
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> Mark Callaghan
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Not that I am pushing tcmalloc. We are still trying to figure it out...
http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=78

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