RE: [BUG] list implementation too slow.

Hmm. yes - I do compile using checking malloc. I re-comiled using native
malloc and it looks better - haven't had all the capacity testing done
on it yet though. Is it just that - checking malloc is so slow to cause
thrashing in code that do de-allocations ? 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:26 PM
> To: Oded Arbel
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BUG] list implementation too slow.
> 
> 
> >Hi list.
> >
> >Lately we've been doing some very high capacity testing on 
> Kannel , and
> >found out some interesting stuff. mainly as queues (managed by lists)
> >are filling up to over a few hundreds of messages, the boxes start
> >thrashing.
> >I think this is directly related to the List implementation 
> - it's just
> >too sssslllloooowwww. when we have more then a few hundreds 
> of messages
> >in the List, extracting one item can sometimes take anywhere 
> from 2 to 4
> >seconds (!!!).
> >
> >Does any one have any information or experience regarding that ?
> 
> I strongly disagree with this. My gateway at some point in time had 
> over 100'000 messages in the list and it dequeued as fast as it can, 
> sending out about 40msg/sec (and that was the limit of the SMSC, not 
> kannel).
> 
> Maybe you run it in non native-malloc mode?
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> 
> Andreas Fink
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