On 10.12.20 16:23, Stefan Reiter wrote:
> jemalloc does not play nice with our Rust library (proxmox-backup-qemu),
> specifically it never releases memory allocated from Rust to the OS.
> This leads to a problem with larger caches (e.g. for the PBS block driver).
> 
> It appears to be related to this GitHub issue:
> https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/1398
> 
> The background_thread solution seems weirdly hacky, so let's disable
> jemalloc entirely for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.rei...@proxmox.com>
> ---
> 
> @Alexandre: you were the one to introduce jemalloc into our QEMU builds a long
> time ago - does it still provide a measurable benefit? If the performance loss
> would be too great in removing it, we could maybe figure out some workarounds 
> as
> well.
> 
> Its current behaviour does seem rather broken to me though...
> 
>  debian/rules | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
>

applied, thanks!


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