On Friday 08 April 2005 03:05, Rogan Dawes wrote: > Take a look at > http://www.linuxshowcase.org/2001/full_papers/ezolt/ezolt_html/ > > Abstract > > GNU libc's default setting for malloc can cause a significant > performance penalty for applications that use it extensively, such as > Compaq's high performance extended math library, CXML. The default > malloc tuning can cause a significant number of minor page faults, and > result in application performance of only half of the true potential.
This does not smell like an n*2 suckage, more like n^something suckage. Finding the elephant under the rug should not be hard. Profile? Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
