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From: "DERUMIER, Alexandre" <alexandre.derumier@groupe-cyllene.com>
To: "pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com" <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
	"k.chai@proxmox.com" <k.chai@proxmox.com>
Cc: "tchaikov@gmail.com" <tchaikov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Re-enable alternative memory allocator (tcmalloc) for pve-qemu?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:09:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <623789cf45105fd421fe32f32562538fb76d07a8.camel@groupe-cyllene.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DHCDIFA0P8QP.2CTY4G4EEGKQ0@proxmox.com>

Hi Kefu !
>>1. Does anyone remember why tcmalloc was removed after only 8 days
>>   in 2015 (2.3-4)? The changelog just says "remove tcmalloc" with
>>   no explanation.

If I remember, it was because I had lower peformance than jemalloc
because of too low default TCMALLOC_MAX_TOTAL_THREAD_CACHE_BYTES &&
also the tcmalloc 2.2 at this time.  (it was resolved later with
tcmalloc 2.4)

See:
https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2015-June/015551.html


  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-26  2:54 Kefu Chai
2026-03-26  6:09 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre [this message]
2026-03-26  6:16 ` Dietmar Maurer
2026-03-26  7:48   ` Kefu Chai

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