New jemalloc patch (was Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2)

[Rong-En Fan]

On 3/13/06, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 17:21, Jason Evans wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/patches/jemalloc_20060306a.diff
> >
> > See the man page in the patch for runtime configuration options.
> >
> > Here's the C file:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/patches/jemalloc_20060306a.c
> >
> > I'm primarily interested in feedback regarding the following:
> >
> > * Stability
> > * Speed
> > * Memory usage
>
> I have been running it for the last few days and have not seen any stability
> or excess memory consumption issues.

I used this for 2+ days on up-to-date -current. Memory usage is much
lower than before.
I have 512MB memory, running Xorg, firefox with many tabs, several
rxvt-unicode, mplayer.
Without this patch, after one day, it begins to swapping heavily. I
didn't do any benchmark
on speed. At least, I does not feel any slowness compared to w/o patch.

Thanks,
Rong-En Fan