Re: [squid-users] dlmalloc or malloc

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:41:30 +0200

On lör, 2007-08-25 at 18:50 +0800, Techwww wrote:
> I'm running Squid on RH Linux as4,2.6.9 kernel.
> Would I compile squid with dlmalloc or malloc enabled for better performance?

The glibc malloc is probably better than the very old dlmalloc shipped
with Squid.

> I heard that dlmalloc can't support the memory which is more than 2G,is it?

Correct. It's a very very old dlmalloc version shipped with Squid, only
intended for systems where the system provided malloc is behaving very
bad...

Regards
Henrik

Received on Sun Aug 26 2007 - 14:41:36 MDT

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