Comparing glibc's malloc to jemalloc for 389 Directory Server.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Wed May 18 20:54:00 GMT 2016


On 05/18/2016 03:45 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The framework should tell you, within some statistical bounds,
> exactly which of the multitude of allocators available outside
> of glibc might be the best match for your workload.

I want to clarify that I meant this in the generic sense that
you could swap out any number of allocators and re-run the
simulated workload. The framework itself that we're working on
is not designed to pop out an answer like "Use tcmalloc." :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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