[Mono-dev] tcmalloc

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

Very interesting Christian. Wouldn't it be worth to have it available as
a compilation switch or something? Maybe performance varies depending on
the test. I'm thinking on our own load tests.

pablo

Christian Hergert wrote:
> I've tested it in the past (extensibly during 2.4 cycle) with negligible
> changes in performance on 2, 4, and 8 core boxes.
> 
> -- Christian
> 
> On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Zoltan Varga wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>   We use malloc for allocating runtime memory structures etc., but in
>> a server app, that
>> all happens during startup, so it doesn't help much.
>>
>>              Zoltan
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:05 PM, pablosantosluac at terra.es
>> <pablosantosluac at terra.es> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Dick and I were talking about it today and most likely it wouldn't have
>> a big impact since Mono does use mmap instead but.. do you guys think
>> using tcmalloc would be worth?
>>
>> http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
>>
>> It's not new, but I've just found it reading the MySql 5.4 release
>> notes, and it seems it helps boosting its performance
>>
>> http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/double-sysbench-throughput-with_18.html
>>
>>
>> Would it help?
>>
>>        pablo
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