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by wengo314 98 days ago
jemalloc saved my icinga2 installation that kept exploding in memory usage, when i (and agents from sub-zones) was hammering its api

when i preloaded jemalloc , memory remained at significantly lower levels, and - more importantly - it was stable.

there seems to be no single correct solution to memory allocation, depending on the workload