Looking into this now, hopefully ill have a updated patch soonish. -Kevin
On 2/3/06, David Rhodus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/3/06, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > : > > :FYI, > > : > > :FreeBSD just imported a new malloc to replace the aged > > :phkmalloc. > > : > > :There was much back and forth with the author and David Xu > > :so he might have an opinion as to whether the changes in the > > :FreeBSD malloc are worth looking into. > > : > > :The new malloc is not derived from the phkmalloc so likely > > :these changes would not apply. Many of the features are > > :similar, except the new jemalloc was engineered with true > > :concurrent threaded applications in mind. > > > > I've been following that thread in the FreeBSD groups. > > We will definitely *NOT* going to be importing FreeBSD's > > new malloc. > > > > My feeling is that if a threaded program allocates so much > > data that a fast MP-safe malloc is required, then we should > > simply port the slab allocator from the DragonFly kernel to > > userland and use that. > > > > For now its not on the table. The current proposed malloc > > changes for DragonFly IS on the table and I do want to see > > it committed, but I'd appreciate it if some GUI users could > > test it out with e.g. mozilla, X, and so forth, first. > > > > -Matt > > I haven't been able to get a pkgsrc bulk build to complete using the > malloc patch. > > -DR > >
