Huge page support would be useful in JEMalloc

[Eric Wong]

Kenneth Steele <ken at ezchip.com> wrote:
> Ideally, JEMalloc with Huge pages would be the best.

For some apps such as yours, yes.  And jemalloc can already use
transparent hugepages, but there are downsides to apps (e.g. redis)
which fork:

  http://mid.gmane.org/CA+XzkVfZV36k-d6mw9xEBgSQQhmfMKwts79wrwMB+3PYydzeCg@mail.gmail.com

Not sure if there's an automatic, best-of-both worlds approach...