big slowdown with shared-heap

Bengt Kleberg eleberg@REDACTED
Wed Feb 12 16:15:34 CET 2003


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> Subject: big slowdown with shared-heap
> From: Nicolas Niclausse <nicolas.niclausse@REDACTED>

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> I'm doing some experiments with a load testing tool, simulating lot's of
> http clients.
> 
> When I use it with erlang-R9B-0 compiled with --enable-shared-heap,
> I can reach a maximum of ~270 req/s (on a Pentium3 800Mhz processor)
> 
> Without --enable-shared-heap, i have reached 450 req/s
> 
> So my question is: is this a bug or does the shared-heap's not well
> suited for this kind of load ? (currently, i have 2 erlang processes per

greetings,

the one study of the subject matter that i can remember is:
A Case for the Unified Heap Approach to Erlang Memory Management,
by Marc Feeley.
available at http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2001/


bengt




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