Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:38:57 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown. |
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Kevin Buhr writes: > If I recall correctly, RedHat's 2.96 was a modified development > snapshot of GCC 3.0, not an official GCC release. If this is just a > quirk in 2.96 that can be fixed before the official release of 3.0 by > a trivial patch to libiberty, maybe your original hunch was right and > the kernel should be left as-is.
It is the garbage collector scheme used for memory allocation in gcc >=2.96 that triggers the bad cases seen by Serge.
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