[Linux-ha-dev] make --enable-libc-alloc the default?

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2007-02-21T08:09:43, Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> wrote:

> Which is EXACTLY what it's supposed to do for months or years at a time
> - and in fact what it does do for months or years at a time.
> 
> The fact that _under test conditions_ it consumes a bit more is a bit
> artificial, IMHO.

This is incomplete. It neglects that 10% speedup mean 10% faster
fail-over, give or take. People don't care whether we take 1% or even 2%
at runtime, but they'll bother if we take 10% less time to fail-over.

(Given of course that the CCM implementation right now slows us down
tons as well, this may not be significant.)

And, it also means that the code does not provide anything we need in
practice; during testing, valgrind/Coverity/BEAM(?) provide more useful
feedback. Occam's razor suggests the other half of the reason for
disabling the code.


Sincerely,
    Lars

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