Re: FreeBSD 9.1 excessive memory allocations [SOLVED]

> =

> I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage.=A0 When it
> mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's
> talking about performance, not thread safety.=A0 Allocations of all sizes
> are thread-safe, the library just assumes that huge allocations are rare
> enough that it doesn't use extra per-thread resources to avoid locking
> for them, it just uses locking for huge blocks.
> =

> -- Ian
>

Good to note all allocations are thread safe in FreeBSD. Is it by some stan=
dard that malloc should be thread safe regardless the OS (BSDs, Linux, Wind=
ows, Android, etc)?

Unga

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