Re: Memory allocation jump after running for a while with a largenumber of threads

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper redhat com>]

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> The application is a chat server that serves a large number of client
> connections, each connection requiring two threads.  The number of
> threads oscillates from ~100 threads in early mornings to almost 4000
> threads in the evening peaks. 

The only memory the thread lbrary allocates is for the stacks, memory
for TLS, and at some point for POSIX thread-local storage.  Everything
else is caused by the user apps.

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