On 12.12.2006, at 19:40, Stephen Deasey wrote:
Tcl not being the fastest kid on the block, and folklore saying you should reboot your AOLserver/NaviServer once/day due to chronic memory fragmentation, it would be nice if these thousand node DOMs were constructed once, at compile time, with one of them thar fancy-pants 1970's macro systems...
Hm... this is important point.... 1. memory fragmentation 2. pre-allocation of dom nodes. Lets skip 2 for the moment. As 1. is affecting all users... Yes, we do currently restart the server daily because of that nasty fragmentation and memory eating. Which means there should be some other options, i.e. other memory allocation techniques we could use. By "we" I mean ourselves, as we are not that focused on raw speed of the allocator. Speed-sensible things we already do with custom C-code and take care about memory ourselves. But general stuff like Tcl and 2. (above) still hit us in the knee every day. Does anybody happen to know a nice malloc replacement for Win/Unix (Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX) that is fairly fast for MT process, yet not that memory-hungry as the current allocator?
