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Re: malloc: Trim unused arenas on thread exit
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:42:22 +0530
- Subject: Re: malloc: Trim unused arenas on thread exit
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On Tuesday 14 November 2017 12:38 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> The trimming really should be a win because the workload is likely to
> change when a thread exits.
Not really, worker threads will often have similar workload
characteristics, e.g. web servers, middleware messaging servers.
Siddhesh