Quoth Unga unga...@yahoo.com:
I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage.� When it
mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's
talking about performance, not thread safety.� Allocations of all sizes
are thread-safe, the library just assumes
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:39:16PM -0700, Unga wrote:
I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage.? When it
mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's
talking about performance, not thread safety.? Allocations of all sizes
are thread-safe, the
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From: Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org
To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 excessive memory allocations
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 11:35 -0700, Unga
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:33:46 +0100, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote:
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From: Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org
To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 excessive
On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 11:33 -0700, Unga wrote:
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From: Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org
To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 excessive memory
I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage. When it
mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's
talking about performance, not thread safety. Allocations of all sizes
are thread-safe, the library just assumes that huge allocations are rare
