Jemalloc

On more modern linux systems (development/floating at the time of this writing)you may get compile / link errors with ArangoDB regarding jemalloc.This is due to compilers switching their default behavior regarding the - Position Independend Code. It seems common that jemalloc remains in astage where this change isn’t followed and causes ArangoDB to error out duringthe linking phase.

Now you’ve got three choices.

While this may be suitable for development / testing systems, its definitelynot for production.

The smartest way is to fix the jemalloc libraries packages on your system soits reflecting that new behavior. On Debian / Ubuntu systems it can beachieved like this: