Install tcmalloc on CentOS

Question

I installed tcmalloc on CentOS using the command:

sudo yum install google-perftools

And it proceeds correctly. But I cannot find any installed perftools libraries in /usr/lib/, so I cannot set LD_PRELOAD variable.

Then, when I tried to compile with flag -ltcmalloc, the compiler did not recognize it, which quite made sense.

What else should I specify to use tcmalloc on CentOS? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can always build from source. I have done that with my centos 8.

Source code can be found here: https://github.com/google/tcmalloc. Be aware you will need bazel for building the project.

Answer 2

The package names have changed a little. Just run:

yum install gperftools gperftools-devel

...and you'll find various libtcmalloc files in /usr/lib64/