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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>
>
> Libumem has been significantly improved after the fork from OpenSolaris.
> It seems more optimized for speed than for memory efficiency.
>
> It would be good to test with umem and without to see how well it actually
> works.
>

Would getting statistics from ::umastat periodically be something worth
looking at?


>
> Bob
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