Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On mån, 2010-11-29 at 13:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Rolling in calloc in place of >> malloc/memset made no particular difference either, which says that >> Fedora 13's glibc does not have any optimization for that case as I'd >> hoped.
> glibc's calloc is either mmap of /dev/zero or malloc followed by memset. Hmm. I would have expected to see a difference then. Do you know what conditions are needed to cause the mmap to be used? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers