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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: mgittens@gits.nl (Maurice Gittens)
Cc: dg@illustra.com, scrappy@hub.org, mgittens@david.gits.nl, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-22T20:00:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> >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().
> >
> Does this imply that more memory will be used that strictly necesary under
> linux?
> 
> With regards from Maurice.

Actually, perhaps less memory, because malloc memory is not aligned on
double boundaries, but this is all still just conjecture.


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