On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:18:24 +0000 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there something > > preventing this from being addressed within glibc? > > I doubt it other than I expect they'll punt it back and blame either the > application for being stupid or the kernel for being slow. *Is* the application being stupid? What is it actually doing? Something like pthread_routine() { p = malloc(X); do_some(work); free(p); return; } ? If so, that doesn't seem stupid? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>