Re: counting pallocs

On 17.05.2012 06:43, Robert Haas wrote:
> The attached patch provides some rough instrumentation for determining
> where palloc calls are coming from.  This is obviously just for
> noodling around with, not for commit, and there may well be bugs.  But
> enjoy.
>
> I gave this a quick spin on a couple of test workloads: a very short
> pgbench test, a very short pgbench -S test, and the regression tests.
> On the pgbench test, the top culprits are ExecInitExpr() and
> expression_tree_mutator(); in both cases, the lappend() call for the
> T_List case is the major contributor.  Other significant contributors
> include _copyVar(), which I haven't drilled into terribly far but
> seems to be coming mostly from add_vars_to_targetlist();
> buildRelationAliases() via lappend, pstrdup, and makeString;
> ExecAllocTupleTableSlot(); and makeColumnRef() via makeNode, lcons,
> and makeString.

What percentage of total CPU usage is the palloc() overhead in these 
tests? If we could totally eliminate the palloc() overhead, how much 
faster would the test run?

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