Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdb
Ubuntu 'Hardy' 8.04.1
gdb_6.8-1ubuntu2
gdb reports incorrect sizeof:
$ gdb
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you
I think it should be considered for Feisty, because it is really serious
performance degradation.
It's not hypotetical, this bug showed up to me while I evaluating Ubuntu 7.04
server on x86_64 for
our production environment, and it happens in real program.
To demonstrate how bad it is look at
Public bug reported:
Current malloc implementation in glibc-2.5 have serious problem with large
number of free chunks, this bug reported
to upstream http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4349 and fixed
in current cvs and glibc-2.6 release.
** Affects: glibc (upstream)
Here is a patch which fixes this bug extracted from current glibc cvs
** Attachment added: cvs-malloc.diff
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7779358/cvs-malloc.diff
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[feisty] serious performance regression in malloc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116621
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** Description changed:
Current malloc implementation in glibc-2.5 have serious problem with large
number of free chunks, this bug reported
to upstream http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4349 and fixed
in current cvs and glibc-2.6 release.
+ This bug does not happens in edgy
