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Jason Brown edited comment on CASSANDRA-7030 at 4/14/14 1:55 PM:
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[~vijay2...@yahoo.com], you might have an interest in this one.
was (Author: jasobrown):
[~vijay2...@yahoo.com] Vijay, you might have an interest in this one.
> Remove JEMallocAllocator
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7030
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7030
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Benedict
> Assignee: Benedict
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: performance
> Fix For: 2.1 beta2
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> Attachments: 7030.txt
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> JEMalloc, whilst having some nice performance properties by comparison to
> Doug Lea's standard malloc algorithm in principle, is pointless in practice
> because of the JNA cost. In general it is around 30x more expensive to call
> than unsafe.allocate(); malloc does not have a variability of response time
> as extreme as the JNA overhead, so using JEMalloc in Cassandra is never a
> sensible idea. I doubt if custom JNI would make it worthwhile either.
> I propose removing it.
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