Apparently this thing is getting common: jemalloc - Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory management 28 uses: app-admin/rsyslog: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. app-editors/neovim: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations app-office/libreoffice: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations app-text/groonga: Enable dev-libs/jemalloc for memory management dev-db/mariadb: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/mariadb-galera: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/mysql: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/mysql-cluster: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/percona-server: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/redis: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations. dev-db/rethinkdb: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations (default). dev-lang/ruby: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory allocation. dev-lang/rust: Use dev-libs/jemalloc as the standard memory allocator dev-libs/bitset: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations mail-client/thunderbird: Enable or disable jemalloc mail-filter/rspamd: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations media-gfx/blender: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory allocation. net-analyzer/bro: Support for the Jemalloc allocator net-libs/nghttp2: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory allocation net-misc/aria2: Use dev-libs/jemalloc to replace the malloc() implementation with a possibly faster one sci-libs/tensorflow: Enable support for dev-libs/jemalloc sci-physics/root: Enable support for dev-libs/jemalloc sys-cluster/ceph: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations sys-cluster/hpx: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory allocation www-client/firefox: Enable or disable jemalloc www-client/seamonkey: Enable or disable jemalloc www-servers/uwsgi: Use dev-libs/jemalloc instead of libc's malloc www-servers/varnish: Use dev-libs/jemalloc for allocations -- Best regards, Michał Górny