On 10/5/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Andrew Doran wrote:
> > So, I learned a few things since I put up the previous set of benchmarks:
> >
> > - The erratic behaviour from Linux is due to the glibc memory allocator.
> >   Using Google's tcmalloc, the problem disappears.
>
> Well you have to be careful there, tcmalloc apparently defers frees, and
> is not really a general purpose malloc.  The linux performance problems
> are (were? I haven't tried recent kernels) real though.
>

I don't want to get too into linux tuning for this, but horde is a
good alternative to tcmalloc if there are concerns about using
tcmalloc in this capacity.  (horde also works on solaris, and could
probably be ported further)