Setting Glibc tunables

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Oct 28 20:37:56 GMT 2025



On 27/10/25 12:06, Yury Khrustalev via Libc-help wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Glibc manual says that tunables "are implemented as a set of switches
> that may be modified in different ways. The current default method to do
> this is via the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable".
> 
> What are other ways to set the value of a tunable?
> 
> Thanks,
> Yury
> 


Some tunable supersedes others environment variables, for instance 
glibc.malloc.check provides the same semantic of MALLOC_CHECK_.


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