Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT

[Mike Jakubik]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:23:50PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>   
>> And what am i trading off here? I have "/etc/malloc.conf@ -> ajz" and my
>> memory usage has gone up the roof. My system used to be swap free, and 
>> now its swapping over 40 MB. Can someone explain to me why this new 
>> malloc is better? I don't see any speed improvements.
>>     
>
> It's a couple of orders of magnitude faster for threaded binaries.
> See earlier posts by the author for extensive discussion.
>   

Great, too bad only 2% of my applications are threaded. I just don't see 
this change very positively, using 40MB of swap, where before was none 
does not seem to me like a speed improvement. I'm all for better 
performance of threaded apps, but the trade off seems too high.