Bug 689630

Summary:	need an official tcmalloc package
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Colin Patrick McCabe <cmccabe>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Nobody <nobody>
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Version:	5.5	CC:	cmccabe, jbacik, syeghiay
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Description Colin Patrick McCabe 2011-03-21 22:44:09 UTC

Description of problem:
The Ceph distributed filesystem relies heavily on tcmalloc. The tcmalloc library is more efficient than the glibc-provided malloc for our memory allocation pattern.

Users have asked for an official Ceph RPM for RHEL5. We have an RPM, but one issue that is frustrating us is the lack of an official tcmalloc package for Red Hat.

tcmalloc is part of google-perftools. However, we don't need all of google-perftools, just tcmalloc itself. (There is a bug in an unrelated part of google-perftools which makes it perhaps not suitable for pacakaging at this moment.)

We'd like Ceph to work as best as it possibly can on Red Hat.

Additional info:
The ceph mailing list is at ceph-devel.org
Google-perftools is at http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/

Comment 1 Josef Bacik 2011-03-22 17:38:24 UTC

Try EPEL, it's a little late in the RHEL5 cycle to be adding new packages.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-05-01 07:18:34 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:46:10 UTC

This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-02 13:20:36 UTC

Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).