[omniORB] memory allocators

baileyk@schneider.com baileyk@schneider.com
Fri Jan 31 20:08:01 2003


I'd like to ask what memory allocator people are using in their omniORB
applications?  I've recently discovered the sizeable performance impact
that the Solaris allocator has on a multithreaded app running on
multiprocessor hardware.  I'd never heard of Hoard before, but I can attest
to the fact that the graphs shown on http://www.hoard.org are accurate.
Concurrency in one of my applications has reached a point that the poor
performance of the default malloc() on Solaris is a big problem.  Any
comments?

Kendall