diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index efe254827..0022b278e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5774,7 +5774,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "humantime",
  "hyper",
  "itertools 0.12.0",
- "jemalloc-ctl",
  "jemallocator",
  "jsonrpsee",
  "metrics",
@@ -6457,6 +6456,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "humantime",
  "hyper",
+ "jemalloc-ctl",
+ "jemallocator",
  "jsonrpsee",
  "metrics",
  "metrics-exporter-prometheus",
diff --git a/bin/reth/Cargo.toml b/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
index c17a6407d..682f2986f 100644
--- a/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ boyer-moore-magiclen = "0.2.16"
 
 [target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies]
 jemallocator = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
-jemalloc-ctl = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 jsonrpsee.workspace = true
@@ -124,7 +123,7 @@ default = ["jemalloc"]
 
 asm-keccak = ["reth-primitives/asm-keccak"]
 
-jemalloc = ["dep:jemallocator", "dep:jemalloc-ctl"]
+jemalloc = ["dep:jemallocator", "reth-node-core/jemalloc"]
 jemalloc-prof = ["jemalloc", "jemallocator?/profiling"]
 
 min-error-logs = ["tracing/release_max_level_error"]
diff --git a/crates/node-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/node-core/Cargo.toml
index 605edb352..00e34c599 100644
--- a/crates/node-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/node-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ secp256k1 = { workspace = true, features = ["global-context", "rand-std", "recov
 # async
 futures.workspace = true
 
+[target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies]
+jemallocator = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
+jemalloc-ctl = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
+
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 procfs = { version = "0.16.0" }
 
@@ -124,5 +128,7 @@ optimism = [
     "reth-node-api/optimism",
 ]
 
+jemalloc = ["dep:jemallocator", "dep:jemalloc-ctl"]
+
 [build-dependencies]
 vergen = { version = "8.0.0", features = ["build", "cargo", "git", "git2"] }