| > It will plataue Yes, because extra empty pages are released at the end of major GC, which is occasional, and most web application will cyclicaly use enough memory that they will stabilize / plateau at one point. > I believe that advice is a bit outdated. It absolutely isn't, your anecdote doesn't mean much compared to the countless reports you can find out there. > Also note using jemalloc doesn't cause memory to be freed to the system. Yes it does, it has a decay mecanism, most allocators do. https://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html > It reduces fragmentation Yes, and that allows it to have more free pages that it can release. > at the cost of cpu cycles Compared to glibc, not so much. |