On 13 August 2017 at 15:15, Dmitriy Selivanov wrote: | Very interesting information about switching glibc malloc to jemalloc. | | So I see action plan as following: | | 1. set up some benchmark (need to think about design) | 2. Run it on ubuntu machine with default glibc malloc | 3. Run it with malloc_trim passed with reg.finalizer() | 4. Run it with jemalloc | 5. Review results and if they will look better than with glibc malloc - | possibly consider switch R builds to use jemalloc on Debian, Ubuntu | | Can't promise about timeline, but I will definitely try to investigate.
Thumbs up! If you set up a (public) git repo I will try to help. I have access to boxen running these OSs ranging from 2gb ram (old netbook) to 100+gb ram (at work). Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
