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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