[Bug malloc/21273] insufficient memory with more then 10 GB free memory

["adhemerval.zanella at linaro dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21273

--- Comment #5 from Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella at linaro dot org> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #4)
> (In reply to Adhemerval Zanella from comment #3)
> > As for comment #2 neither comment added any useful information to indicate
> > it might either be a glibc issue or any way to try reproduce or pinpoint any
> > possible issue.  If you indeed have any information indicating a glibc issue
> > (backtrace, testcase, etc.), please open a new bug or reopen issue.
> 
> I would also note that firefox uses a jemalloc fork (mozjemalloc) and so
> interfaces directly with the OS for memory requests. This allows the browser
> to more carefully tailor their memory allocation needs to the allocator,
> with more apriori information about the allocation patterns you can usually
> do better than a generic allocator.
> 
> The Fedora 25 chromium build does appear to use the system memory allocator,
> and so would be an interesting candidate for analysis if it is indeed
> causing the system to run out of memory.

Chromium/Chrome uses its own tcmalloc fork afaik and I agree with you it does
seems more related to a kernel issues than an userspace one.

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