Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: > >> I've encouontered this problem before on FreeBSD and have had some >> success >> working around it. One of the main problems seems to be with FreeBSD's >> Perl >> build picking Perl's malloc instead of the native FreeBSD malloc(). >> You can see >> how your perl is configured like this: >> >> $> perl -V:usemymalloc >> usemymalloc='y'; >> > The default /usr/port/lang/perl5.8 > does build perl with this flag. At least on 5.4 and 6.0-current. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/pgollucci rv=0 5 >uname > FreeBSD smgellar 5.4-RELEASE i386 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/pgollucci rv=0 4 >/usr/local/bin/perl > -V:usemymalloc > usemymalloc='y'; > > I may be able to nudge ports@ to change add a flag to Makefile.
I remember reading a thread on ports@ about the reason why that flag was added in the first ( can't find the thread right now ), but I seem to recall there was some problem with Perl's usage of FreeBSD's malloc() causing some performance problem. I believe that problem went away at some point but the workaround remained. Poking [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this issue could possibly help, especially if the reason this was done can be shown not to apply anymore. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe M. Chiasson m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ GPG KeyID : 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107 88C3A5A5
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