phkmalloc vs. mmap direct

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Feb 20 11:30:05 PST 2005


:-On [20050220 01:02], Jonathan Dama (jd at xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
:>These plots are posted at:
:>www.async.caltech.edu/~jd/malloc_test/
:
:Can you put up jpg or pngs too?
:
:(peanut gallery: yes I know I can use pstopnm but for some reason the binary
:has gs hardwired to /usr/bin/gs)
:
:-- 
:Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono

    I'm not sure how useful these tests are.  The 'hard' problem with a
    memory allocator is fragmentation in a long-running program.  These tests
    don't test that issue at all.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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