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		HarrisonFisk on Feb 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TCMalloc and MySQL jemalloc is the new hotness for MySQL. We are using it at Facebook (and I know percona/oracle use it for benchmarks and testing as well). Good benchmark showing the impact of the different options: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/07/05/impact-of-mem...

thrownaway2424 on Feb 22, 2013 | [–]

That blog makes it look like it and tcmalloc are roughly on-par. Do you think there's any possibility that FB leans toward jemalloc chiefly because the author works there, and the author of tcmalloc works at Google?

cpeterso on Feb 22, 2013 | [–]

Firefox uses jemalloc, too.

ihsw on Feb 22, 2013 | [–]

Redis as well.

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