On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:11, Nigel Horne wrote: > I have found that malloc() is much slower on Solaris than Linux. man malloc gives > some > clues, that by default Solaris errs on the side of reducing memory fragmentation > whereas Linux errs > on the side of performance. > > clamAV does a LOT of malloc/frees especially when decoding emails.
It would be interesting to see the effect of using a different malloc() library. -trog
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