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Feature #14718

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Use jemalloc by default?

Added by mperham (Mike Perham) almost 6 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:86725]

Description

I know Sam opened #9113 4 years ago to suggest this but I'm revisiting the topic to see if there's any movement here for Ruby 2.6 or 2.7. I supply a major piece of Ruby infrastructure (Sidekiq) and I keep hearing over and over how Ruby is terrible with memory, a huge memory hog with their Rails apps. My users switch to jemalloc and a miracle occurs: their memory usage drops massively. Some data points:

https://twitter.com/brandonhilkert/status/987400365627801601
https://twitter.com/d_jones/status/989866391787335680
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3824#issuecomment-383072469

Redis moved to jemalloc many years ago and it solved all of their memory issues too. Their conclusion: the glibc allocator "sucks really really hard". http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/everything-about-redis-24.html

This is a real pain point for the entire Rails community and would improve Ruby's reputation immensely if we can solve this problem.


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glibc_arena_2.png (7.23 KB) glibc_arena_2.png Distribution using glibc (max arena 2) - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
jemalloc.png (21.1 KB) jemalloc.png Distribution using jemalloc 3.5 - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
glibc-arena-2.log (60.3 KB) glibc-arena-2.log Log file (only numbers) glibc (max arena 2) - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
glibc.log (62.3 KB) glibc.log Log file (only numbers) glibc (default arena) - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
jemalloc-3-5.log (58.5 KB) jemalloc-3-5.log Log file (only numbers) jemalloc 3.5 - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
glibc.png (9.03 KB) glibc.png Distribution using glibc (default arena) - Ubuntu 14.04 andresakata (André Guimarães Sakata), 07/29/2018 04:31 PM
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