Is it recommended to use jemalloc in Node.js ?

[theanarkh]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

I saw some issues earlier about using jemalloc, has anyone done this in a production environment ? thanks !

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

none

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

[marco-ippolito]

Moving this to discussion as it's for gathering feedback

[laurisvan]

This answer is a bit late, but we recently switched from musl malloc to jemalloc. We suspected memory fragmentation as the reason for node.js garbage collection failing to a OOM kill. After switching we have not seen such OOM kills yet.