> On Aug 10, 2018, at 8:56 AM, Benno Evers <bev...@mesosphere.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> it's quite late in the release cycle, but I've been thinking about
> proposing to enable the `--enable-jemalloc-allocator` configuration setting
> by default for linux builds of Mesos.
>
> The thinking is that
> - Benchmarks consistently show a small to medium performance improvement
> - The bundled jemalloc version (5.0.1) has been released as stable for
> over a year and has not seen any severe bugs
> - Our own Mesos builds with jemalloc don't show any issues so far
>
> What do you think?
I don't think it's worth it. Anyone who wants to use jemalloc can already do
it, and the Mesos profiling support works nicely without also forcing a
build-time dependency. In general, I feel that bundling dependencies is a
burden on the build (e.g out bundled jemalloc is already out of date).
J
