Re: AW: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386)
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Msg-id 9803231904.AA15628@hawk.illustra.com
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In response to AW: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386)  (Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>)
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> David Gould wrote:
> >That said, I have a plan in mind to get a nice performance boost for palloc().
> >As a side effect, I will guarantee 8 byte alignment of pointers returned
> >from palloc().
>
> Wow, this sounds really good, will you try to prealloc bigger chunks of memory
> to avoid the many system calls ? I was wondering if that could give a speed boost.

Yes to both points.

-dg

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