Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Kernel SCM saga.. | Date | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 05:14:28 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <20050408050458.GB8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> By author: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't > > actually seem to be _doing_ anything while it's slow (there are no > > system calls except for a few memory allocations and > > de-allocations). It seems to have some exponential function on the > > number of pathnames involved etc. > > I see lots of brk calls changing the heap size, up, down, up, down, > over and over. > > This smells a bit like c++ new/delete behavior to me. >
Hmmm... can glibc be clued in to do some hysteresis on the memory allocation?
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