diff --git a/src/server.c b/src/server.c
index 6aeb5aa9a..280470f63 100644
--- a/src/server.c
+++ b/src/server.c
@@ -2196,6 +2196,14 @@ void initServer(void) {
     scriptingInit(1);
     slowlogInit();
     latencyMonitorInit();
+}
+
+/* Some steps in server initialization need to be done last (after modules
+ * are loaded).
+ * Specifically, creation of threads due to a race bug in ld.so, in which
+ * Thread Local Storage initialization collides with dlopen call.
+ * see: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19329 */
+void InitServerLast() {
     bioInit();
     server.initial_memory_usage = zmalloc_used_memory();
 }
@@ -4197,6 +4205,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         linuxMemoryWarnings();
     #endif
         moduleLoadFromQueue();
+        InitServerLast();
         loadDataFromDisk();
         if (server.cluster_enabled) {
             if (verifyClusterConfigWithData() == C_ERR) {
@@ -4211,6 +4220,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         if (server.sofd > 0)
             serverLog(LL_NOTICE,"The server is now ready to accept connections at %s", server.unixsocket);
     } else {
+        InitServerLast();
         sentinelIsRunning();
     }
 
diff --git a/src/zmalloc.c b/src/zmalloc.c
index 2482f512b..dd655620c 100644
--- a/src/zmalloc.c
+++ b/src/zmalloc.c
@@ -323,6 +323,13 @@ int zmalloc_get_allocator_info(size_t *allocated,
     je_mallctl("stats.allocated", allocated, &sz, NULL, 0);
     return 1;
 }
+
+void set_jemalloc_bg_thread(int enable) {
+    /* let jemalloc do purging asynchronously, required when there's no traffic 
+     * after flushdb */
+    char val = !!enable;
+    je_mallctl("background_thread", NULL, 0, &val, 1);
+}
 #else
 int zmalloc_get_allocator_info(size_t *allocated,
                                size_t *active,