diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 31f43150b22be1..b28fdd7794421c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6491,6 +6491,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "solana-vote-program",
  "solana_rbpf",
  "thiserror",
+ "tikv-jemallocator",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
diff --git a/ledger-tool/Cargo.toml b/ledger-tool/Cargo.toml
index 1f0fb466419631..ddc1ca9b564e94 100644
--- a/ledger-tool/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ledger-tool/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ solana_rbpf = { workspace = true, features = ["debugger"] }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 
+[target.'cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))'.dependencies]
+jemallocator = { workspace = true }
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_cmd = { workspace = true }
 bytecount = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/ledger-tool/src/main.rs b/ledger-tool/src/main.rs
index d0cf79e76edada..aeed93fd2ff46e 100644
--- a/ledger-tool/src/main.rs
+++ b/ledger-tool/src/main.rs
@@ -1062,6 +1062,13 @@ fn get_access_type(process_options: &ProcessOptions) -> AccessType {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))]
+use jemallocator::Jemalloc;
+
+#[cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))]
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: Jemalloc = Jemalloc;
+
 #[allow(clippy::cognitive_complexity)]
 fn main() {
     // Ignore SIGUSR1 to prevent long-running calls being killed by logrotate