Re: tcmalloc

Bill MacAllister <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--On Sunday, November 22, 2009 02:21:41 PM +1000 "Brett @Google" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering of anybody has used much of tcmalloc (from google
> performance tools) and has any opinion they care to share with regards to
> performance of berkeleydb/openldap toolset ?
>
> Seems about the same with as without for a simple slapadd, but i'd expect
> that wins would be more around a highly loaded server, not the initial load
> process?
>
> (investigations continue however, server loading is next)
>
> Cheers
> Brett

The only authenticated binds to our directory service that we support
are GSSAPI binds.  On Linux, Cyrus SASL/malloc leak memory bad enough
that without either hoard or tcmalloc OpenLDAP is unusable.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister, System Software Programmer
Unix Systems Group, Stanford University
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