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

David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

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From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: mgittens@gits.nl, scrappy@hub.org, mgittens@david.gits.nl, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-22T22:28:07Z
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.


Ok, you've convinced me. Sheesh...

Change the description to "nice performance boost and use less memory".

;-)

-dg
 
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