Re: patch: tsearch - some memory diet

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
>>> on 32bit from 27MB (3399 blocks) to 13MB (1564 blocks)
>>> on 64bit from 55MB to cca 27MB.
>
>> Good results. But, I think, there are more places in ispell to use hold_memory():
>> - affixes and affix tree
>> - regis (REGex for ISpell, regis.c)
>
> I fixed the affix stuff as much as possible (some of the structures are
> re-palloc'd so they can't easily be included).  It appears that hacking
> up regis, or any of the remaining allocations, wouldn't be worth the
> trouble.  Using the Czech dictionary on a 32-bit machine, I see about
> 16MB going through the compacted-alloc code and only about 375K going
> through regular small palloc's.

Nice.  What was the overall effect on memory consumption?

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