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[Bug libc/11261] malloc uses excessive memory for multi-threaded applications


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11261

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |carlos at redhat dot com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #15 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> 2013-03-14 19:03:05 UTC ---
This should have been fixed by the following commit:

commit 41b81892f11fe1353123e892158b53de73863d62
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 31 14:42:34 2012 -0500

    Handle ARENA_TEST correctly

I have verified that using `mallopt (M_ARENA_MAX, 1)' that the limit of memory
is bounded by the single arena.

creating 10 threads
allowing threads to contend to create preferred arenas
display preferred arenas
Arena 0:
system bytes     =     135168
in use bytes     =       2880
Total (incl. mmap):
system bytes     =     135168
in use bytes     =       2880
max mmap regions =          0
max mmap bytes   =          0
allowing threads to allocate 100MB each, sequentially in turn
thread 0 alloc 100MB
thread 0 free 100MB-20kB
thread 4 alloc 100MB
thread 4 free 100MB-20kB
thread 9 alloc 100MB
thread 9 free 100MB-20kB
thread 5 alloc 100MB
thread 5 free 100MB-20kB
thread 2 alloc 100MB
thread 2 free 100MB-20kB
thread 7 alloc 100MB
thread 7 free 100MB-20kB
thread 1 alloc 100MB
thread 1 free 100MB-20kB
thread 8 alloc 100MB
thread 8 free 100MB-20kB
thread 6 alloc 100MB
thread 6 free 100MB-20kB
thread 3 alloc 100MB
thread 3 free 100MB-20kB
Arena 0:
system bytes     =  100392960
in use bytes     =     201472
Total (incl. mmap):
system bytes     =  100392960
in use bytes     =     201472
max mmap regions =          0
max mmap bytes   =          0

Therefore the solution to a program with lots of threads is to limit the arenas
as a trade-off for memory.

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