[opensource-dev] Mesh viewers and tcmalloc issues

Lance Corrimal Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de
Sun Oct 2 01:01:00 PDT 2011


Am Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011 schrieb Henri Beauchamp:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:23:36 -0400, Mike Chase wrote:
> > Setting this as described for me made the client (on Linux) so
> > slow as to be unuseable.  I am seeing occasional crashesas well
> > and tried this as a workaround.
> 
> I can tell you the slow down is *certainly* not coming from this
> fix: I conducted many tests here (have been using this fix for
> over a week now), and can tell there is absolutely no speed
> difference with the fix and without the fix...

I've been using "export TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE=10000" here for a bit, 
and didn't notice any negative impacts either, but the memory usage of 
the client dropped by roughly one gig...


bye,
LC


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