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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:04:38PM -0600, Wes wrote:
> Regarding the various kernel bottlenecks, have there been any tests with
> Google's malloc (libtcmalloc)?  

PostgreSQL has its own allocator on top of malloc already. tcmalloc is
optimised for many small allocations, whereas postgres only requests
blocks from the OS in large blocks. I doubt tcmalloc would make a
useful difference here.

Have a nice day,
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