[pve-devel] [RFC pve-qemu] disable jemalloc

[alexandre derumier]

AFAIK, It was mainly for rbd performance, but performance is fixed now 
(with glibc from buster).
So, I think we don't need it anymore.


On 10/12/2020 16:23, Stefan Reiter wrote:
> jemalloc does not play nice with our Rust library (proxmox-backup-qemu),
> specifically it never releases memory allocated from Rust to the OS.
> This leads to a problem with larger caches (e.g. for the PBS block driver).
>
> It appears to be related to this GitHub issue:
> https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/1398
>
> The background_thread solution seems weirdly hacky, so let's disable
> jemalloc entirely for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter at proxmox.com>
> ---
>
> @Alexandre: you were the one to introduce jemalloc into our QEMU builds a long
> time ago - does it still provide a measurable benefit? If the performance loss
> would be too great in removing it, we could maybe figure out some workarounds as
> well.
>
> Its current behaviour does seem rather broken to me though...
>
>   debian/rules | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> index c73d6a1..57e1c91 100755
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ config.status: configure
>   	--enable-docs \
>   	--enable-glusterfs \
>   	--enable-gnutls \
> -	--enable-jemalloc \
>   	--enable-libiscsi \
>   	--enable-libusb \
>   	--enable-linux-aio \