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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0221
2013-01-29 19:41:59
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Name : jemalloc
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 3.3.0
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/
Summary : General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc implementation
Description :
General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation.
This distribution is the stand-alone "portable" implementation of jemalloc.
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Update Information:
New upstream release
From the upstream release notes:
3.3.0 (January 23, 2013)
This version includes a few minor performance improvements in
addition to the listed new features and bug fixes.
New features:
- Add clipping support to lg_chunk option processing.
- Add the --enable-ivsalloc option.
- Add the --without-export option.
- Add the --disable-zone-allocator option.
Bug fixes:
- Fix "arenas.extend" mallctl to output the number of
arenas.
- Fix chunk_recycyle() to unconditionally inform Valgrind
that returned memory is undefined.
- Fix build break on FreeBSD related to alloca.h
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #903589 - jemalloc-3.3.0 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903589
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update jemalloc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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