Issue #14718 has been updated by mperham (Mike Perham).
Blog post this morning on the massive improvements from jemalloc for one heavy Ruby user:
https://brandonhilkert.com/blog/reducing-sidekiq-memory-usage-with-jemalloc/
An alternative is to tune glibc by reducing the number of arenas. Call this on startup:
#include "malloc.h"
mallopt(M_ARENA_MAX, 2)
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Malloc-Tunable-Parameters.html#Malloc-Tunable-Parameters
Several people have reported massive memory reductions:
https://twitter.com/ideasasylum/status/990922248298156033
https://twitter.com/iotr/status/989537230594215936
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Feature #14718: Use jemalloc by default?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718#change-71808
* Author: mperham (Mike Perham)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee:
* Target version:
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I know Sam opened #9113 4 years ago to suggest this but I'm revisiting the topic to see if there's any movement here for Ruby 2.6 or 2.7. I supply a major piece of Ruby infrastructure (Sidekiq) and I keep hearing over and over how Ruby is terrible with memory, a huge memory hog with their Rails apps. My users switch to jemalloc and a miracle occurs: their memory usage drops massively. Some data points:
https://twitter.com/brandonhilkert/status/987400365627801601
https://twitter.com/d_jones/status/989866391787335680
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3824#issuecomment-383072469
Redis moved to jemalloc many years ago and it solved all of their memory issues too. Their conclusion: the glibc allocator "sucks really really hard". http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/everything-about-redis-24.html
This is a real pain point for the entire Rails community and would improve Ruby's reputation immensely if we can solve this problem.
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