On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:31:03PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Firefox and xulrunner are bundling their own copy of jemalloc (try "strings /usr/lib64/xulrunner/xulrunner |grep jemalloc", or similarly with /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin).
Why isn't this recorded in the RPM provides (and why is there no mention of jemalloc in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries)? Are there any other known cases outside Mozilla products? I found bug 788500 about unbundling jemalloc from redis.
If jemalloc would be its own package, we would probably use that for nfs-ganesha too. Currently glibc/malloc is used, but jemalloc is well tested by the nfs-ganesha community and could have some benefits. I have not checked the sources of jemalloc, so I can not say if I would be a suitable maintainer for it.
Niels