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Re: Bad malloc performance in glibc 2.3?

From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:48:11 -0700
Subject: Re: Bad malloc performance in glibc 2.3?
References: <20020507234343.A28450@lucon.org> <200205082324.BAA61871@max.zk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de>

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:24:01AM +0200, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> > I have 2 reports of bad malloc performance in glibc 2.3. It appears
> > that malloc_consolidate () takes way too much CPU time under certain
> > conditions. malloc in 2.2 is ok. Has anyone seen it?
> 
> Can you send me a test case?
> 
> Anyway, I have one patch sort of pending which may help performance in
> some cases but still might hurt other ones (as always :-( ).
> I'll send it tomorrow for you to try out.

I am trying to get a test case. It may take some time.

Thanks.


H.J.

References:
- Bad malloc performance in glibc 2.3?
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Bad malloc performance in glibc 2.3?
  - From: Wolfram Gloger

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