// Mini-benchmark for creating a lot of threads. // // Some facts: // a) clang -O1 takes <15ms to start N=500 threads, // consuming ~4MB more RAM than N=1. // b) clang -O1 -ftsan takes ~26s to start N=500 threads, // eats 5GB more RAM than N=1 (which is somewhat expected but still a lot) // but then it consumes ~4GB of extra memory when the threads shut down! // (definitely not in the barrier_wait interceptor) // Also, it takes 26s to run with N=500 vs just 1.1s to run with N=1. #include <assert.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> pthread_barrier_t all_threads_ready; void* Thread(void *unused) { pthread_barrier_wait(&all_threads_ready); return 0; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int n_threads; if (argc == 1) { n_threads = 100; } else if (argc == 2) { n_threads = atoi(argv[1]); } else { printf("Usage: %s n_threads\n", argv[0]); return 1; } printf("%s: n_threads=%d\n", __FILE__, n_threads); pthread_barrier_init(&all_threads_ready, NULL, n_threads + 1); pthread_t *t = new pthread_t[n_threads]; for (int i = 0; i < n_threads; i++) { int status = pthread_create(&t[i], 0, Thread, (void*)i); assert(status == 0); } // sleep(5); // FIXME: simplify measuring the memory usage. pthread_barrier_wait(&all_threads_ready); for (int i = 0; i < n_threads; i++) { pthread_join(t[i], 0); } // sleep(5); // FIXME: simplify measuring the memory usage. delete [] t; return 0; }