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I'm trying to compile myself NGINX and see that it uses is own memory allocation on top of malloc: ngx_alloc and ngx_calloc.

Is it a good idea to replace ngx_alloc and ngx_calloc with jemalloc or tcmalloc memory management ?

Christian Kakesa
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    Don't know the code. But if they built something on top of malloc, it can serve useful purposes. So before trying to remove it, you might want to understand what it does. – BitTickler Apr 27 '15 at 23:21
  • You will have to try it to find out. [The goog says this.](http://itessays.com/other/using-tcmalloc-optimize-nginx-performance.html) – jxh Apr 28 '15 at 01:35
  • Although it may gives you performance improvement, but if nginx isn't giving you any problems, probably not. This is for MySQL, but may be useful for you too - http://www.percona.com/blog/2012/07/05/impact-of-memory-allocators-on-mysql-performance/. – Tan Hong Tat Apr 28 '15 at 10:29
  • OK, thanks for the links and your explanations. – Christian Kakesa Aug 24 '15 at 22:38

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