[oi-dev] Why are Firefox and Thunderbird built with jemalloc?

Till Wegmüller toasterson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 18:57:43 UTC 2017


On 20.02.2017 23:01, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Aurélien Larcher
> <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com <mailto:aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     This is just a simple and honest question.
>     I have rebuilt Firefox and Thunderbird with jemalloc disabled and
>     linked to libumem.
>     I am not sure if the behaviour is related to adjusting
>     layout.frame_rate=24 or the memory alloc but Thunderbird seems less
>     "bloated".
>     Any experience?
>
>
>
> (the underlying question being about memory fragmentation and such)
>

Do we have this kind of Situation ?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422055

Greetings
Toasterson




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