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2006 May 19
1
Memory allocator on OS/X
...rence to this article, so here goes:
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/16/36/
In response to a criticism of OS X, a diligent blogger examined a
claim that it was an inherently slow operating system. The
application in question was R, and the results were...
"Linux uses ptmalloc, which is a thread-safe implemenation based on
Doug Lea?s allocator (Sekhon?s test is single threaded,
incidentally). R also uses the Lea allocator on Windows instead of
the default Windows malloc. But on Mac OS X, it uses the default
allocator."
... and ...
"If you use the same...
2012 Mar 01
3
murdering high-memory workers and auto-scaling
Two ideas, one more controversial than the other.
First: auto-killing bloated workers.?My current app has some memory
leakage that wasn''t really visible on our older passenger setup, since
the auto-scaling meant that bloated workers got killed periodically.
In a perfect world, we''d find and patch all of the leaks, but in the
meantime (and as a safety net) I''d like to get