On Sun, 15 May 2005, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Shouldn't C-ares have some environment variables (like curl has) to control
> memory debugging and limits? I suggest something like in ares_init.c /
> ares_init_options():
Looks like a good idea to me, feel free to commit.
Further, I think we should consider moving in a copy of the libcurl memdebug
code into the ares repository so that it can be used stand-alone without
relying on anything in libcurl.
> My hosts file has "only" 8000 entries, but memanalyze.pl lists more than
> 48000 allocations and frees. Could this be optimised somehow? Using mmap()
> or CreateFileMapping() to parse the hosts file.
c-ares certainly makes a lot of malloc()s. Many of those can be optimized -
like merging several small allocs into one big.
-- c-ares -- my preferred DNS asynch resolver library _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/c-aresReceived on Mon May 16 00:56:07 2005