Came across this message on the freebsd stable list today, I wonder what does it mean to my mod_perl server running in FreeBSD, will recompiling perl with perl's malloc turned on squeeze even more performance out of my mod_perl server?
Since noone on FreeBSD has confirmed this to be true or false, your likely next step is to have two builds and compare their performance and report back the results.
Searching on the internet gave the impression that this might be malloc/FreeBSD related. Any chance of this being resolved?
Use perls own malloc implementation (make -DWITHOUT_PERL_MALLOC for an up-to-date perl5.8 port, if you use make -DWITH_THREADS perls own malloc implementation gets disabled by the FreeBSD port)? AFAIK perl 5.0 in the 4.x basesystem doesn't use its own malloc implementation.
I've tried it on -current with perl 5.6.1: - I've aborted your testcode after 5 minutes without perl malloc - with perl malloc it needs ~9 seconds
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