Re: NUMA-aware tcmalloc

[Oskar Pearson <oskar@deckle.co.za>]

Hi

On 23 May 2009, at 07:09, Howard Chu wrote:

> Howard Chu wrote:
> > Howard Chu wrote:
> > > For those of you running multi-socket Opteron servers (and  
> > > eventually,
> > > multi-socket Nehalem servers), AMD published a whitepaper last  
> > > week on their
> > > work adapting Google's tcmalloc to be NUMA-aware. The whitepaper  
> > > includes
> > > links to their source code / diffs. It appears to be quite a  
> > > performance boost
> > > in their (very artificial) benchmark. I'll be trying it out soon  
> > > myself.
> >
> > Doh. Forgot to paste the link:
> >
> > http://developer.amd.com/Assets/NUMA_aware_heap_memory_manager_article_final.pdf
>
> http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/streamflow/
>
> This paper from 2006 indicates that Streamflow is even faster than  
> tcmalloc, with comparable memory footprint. Has anyone here used it?  
> I don't recall having heard of it when I was comparing allocators in  
> 2007.


See this quote by the streamflow author on http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=361498
> Then there's my work, which is frankly not suitable for using in a  
> real application since it's tested as heavily as the other two I  
> mentioned: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/streamflow

That quote is, however, 192 days old. Things may have changed.

Oskar