Bug#921425: matrix-synapse: please preload libjemalloc to reduce memory consumption

2019-05-05 Thread Linda Lapinlampi
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Control: severity -1 wishlist On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 09:00:00PM +, Linda Lapinlampi wrote: > Smart ideas may not always be smart in the end. I think you'd be better > off convincing to switch the malloc(3) system call to use jemalloc(3) > everywhere, if the benefit

Bug#921425: matrix-synapse: please preload libjemalloc to reduce memory consumption

2019-02-08 Thread Linda Lapinlampi
I would be opposed to this, since there's no support for Valgrind since jemalloc version 5.0. As an example rationale: LibreSSL was forked from OpenSSL because of OpenSSL's custom memory allocator and the OpenBSD project not catching memory safety issues because of it. (It wasn't because of Heartb

Bug#921425: matrix-synapse: please preload libjemalloc to reduce memory consumption

2019-02-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: matrix-synapse Version: 0.34.1.1-4 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Synapse eats memory when entering big rooms. At https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#help-synapse-eats-all-my-ram is suggested to preload libjemalloc as a way to (in my understanding) fa