From edd at debian.org  Sun Aug 13 15:02:13 2017
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 08:02:13 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Help to create bugzilla account
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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

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[Rd] Help to create bugzilla account
Dirk Eddelbuettel