AW: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386)

From: Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas(dot)zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
To: "'pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org>
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386)
Date: 1998-03-23 09:13:31
Message-ID: 01BD5644.59607360@pc9358.sd.spardat.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.

Andreas

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