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by citrin_ru 1149 days ago
globc malloc works reasonably well if threads are not used (nginx and postgres are examples of apps which don’t rely on threads), but if an app uses many threads on multi core CPU shortcomings of glibc malloc (or advantages of jemalloc) become more obvious, especially if you use some LTS Linux distro with an old glibc.