Re: [squid-users] dlmalloc or malloc

On lör, 2007-08-25 at 18:50 +0800, Techwww wrote:
> I'm running Squid on RH Linux as4,2.6.9 kernel.
> Would I compile squid with dlmalloc or malloc enabled for better performance?

The glibc malloc is probably better than the very old dlmalloc shipped
with Squid.

> I heard that dlmalloc can't support the memory which is more than 2G,is it?

Correct. It's a very very old dlmalloc version shipped with Squid, only
intended for systems where the system provided malloc is behaving very
bad...

Regards
Henrik