WARNING: JE Malloc not configured.
         Excessive memory fragmentation and poor performance may result.
         If this is intentional, set
             HOUDINI_DISABLE_JEMALLOCTEST=1
         to remove this warning.
double free or corruption (out)
Aborted

#!/usr/bin/python
def enableHouModule():
    '''Set up the environment so that "import hou" works.'''
    import sys, os

    #import platform
    # Importing hou will load in Houdini's libraries and initialize Houdini.
    # In turn, Houdini will load any HDK extensions written in C++.  These
    # extensions need to link against Houdini's libraries, so we need to
    # make sure that the symbols from Houdini's libraries are visible to
    # other libraries that Houdini loads.  So, we adjust Python's dlopen
    # flags before importing hou.
    if hasattr(sys, "setdlopenflags"):
        old_dlopen_flags = sys.getdlopenflags()
        import DLFCN
        sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL)

    try:
        import hou
    except ImportError:
        # Add $HFS/houdini/python2.7libs to sys.path so Python can find the
        # hou module.
        # works for 16.5, fails for 17.0 or 17.0.352 
        HFS="/opt/hfs17.0"
        sys.path.append(HFS + "/houdini/python%d.%dlibs" % sys.version_info[:2])
        import hou
    finally:
        if hasattr(sys, "setdlopenflags"):
            sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags)

enableHouModule()

# installing jemalloc
wget https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases/download/5.1.0/jemalloc-5.1.0.tar.bz2
tar xvjf jemalloc-5.1.0.tar.bz2
cd jemalloc-5.1.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

# running your app
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libjemalloc.so python your_app.py

import DLFCN
sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL)

import ctypes
sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)