diff --git a/src/config.h b/src/config.h
index a9014ab6..fbb6259e 100644
--- a/src/config.h
+++ b/src/config.h
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@
  * this expects a different allocation scheme. Therefore, *exclusively* use
  * either tcmalloc or OSX's malloc_size()! */
 #if defined(USE_TCMALLOC)
+#define REDIS_MALLOC "tcmalloc"
 #include <google/tcmalloc.h>
 #if TC_VERSION_MAJOR >= 1 && TC_VERSION_MINOR >= 6
 #define HAVE_MALLOC_SIZE 1
 #define redis_malloc_size(p) tc_malloc_size(p)
 #endif
 #elif defined(USE_JEMALLOC)
+#define REDIS_MALLOC "jemalloc"
 #define JEMALLOC_MANGLE
 #include <jemalloc/jemalloc.h>
 #if JEMALLOC_VERSION_MAJOR >= 2 && JEMALLOC_VERSION_MINOR >= 1
@@ -28,6 +30,10 @@
 #define redis_malloc_size(p) malloc_size(p)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef REDIS_MALLOC
+#define REDIS_MALLOC "libc"
+#endif
+
 /* define redis_fstat to fstat or fstat64() */
 #if defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6)
 #define redis_fstat fstat64
diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index 94bd1688..87d46e01 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ sds genRedisInfoString(void) {
         "used_memory_human:%s\r\n"
         "used_memory_rss:%zu\r\n"
         "mem_fragmentation_ratio:%.2f\r\n"
-        "use_tcmalloc:%d\r\n"
+        "mem_allocator:%s\r\n"
         "loading:%d\r\n"
         "aof_enabled:%d\r\n"
         "changes_since_last_save:%lld\r\n"
@@ -1220,11 +1220,7 @@ sds genRedisInfoString(void) {
         hmem,
         zmalloc_get_rss(),
         zmalloc_get_fragmentation_ratio(),
-#ifdef USE_TCMALLOC
-        1,
-#else
-        0,
-#endif
+        REDIS_MALLOC,
         server.loading,
         server.appendonly,
         server.dirty,