Ok, I must have missed something, or might have been off of the cluetrain too long, but what exactly is 'zippy'? I did a google search, but I was getting mostly 'zippy the pinhead' and other weird stuff!
Anyone have an URL or explanation? thanks, --brett On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:54:25 -0500 Rob Mayoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +---------- On Oct 17, Jim Wilcoxson said: > > In glancing at the zippy code, it looks like it used a power-of-2 > > algorithm, so I figured it might cause less heap fragmentation. I > > think that might be at least some of the problem. Does the standard > > gnu/linux memory allocator handle fragmentation poorly/well? > > I think the standard Linux allocator is dl-malloc, which as I recall has > pretty good fragmentation properties. > > The reason zippy may use more memory is that it keeps a separate pool > of memory for each thread. This reduces lock contention but means that > less free memory is shared between threads. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
