[Tor-BSD] FreeBSD tor-devel config options

[Pete Wright]

On 01/09/15 15:18, teor wrote:
> 
> On 9 Jan 2015, at 06:27 , Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hey All,
>> I was doing some testing with my FreeBSD tor systems while poking around
>> for potential optimizations.  I have found that setting the following
>> compilation flags for the tor-devel FreeBSD port have lowered CPU load
>> on my systems, and from the looks of things this may have lead to an
>> increase of utilization of my circuit.
>>
> 
> I'll describe the impact of these flags:

thanks for the info!

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> 
> Is malloc performance on *BSD worse than on Linux?
> (For tor's usage pattern, which allocates lots of buffers temporarily.)
> 

should be able to be tested pretty easily since there is a build option
to use tcmalloc() which should give us some data to compare against.
i'll spin up a tcmalloc() enabled build when i get a chance and give it
a spin.

in my personal experience i find that jemalloc() tends to outperform the
standard linux malloc() in many workloads.  although i reckon tor has a
pretty unique profile.

cheers,
-pete

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