Re: [LONGish] Brief analysis of VMAs (was: /proc/<n>/maps getting

[Alan Cox]

> Yes, that's what's happening above.  And it's what's causing the
> splits in the vmas.  So basically evolution-mail is doing exactly what
> your test program was doing, and causing exactly the same thing.
> 
> Seems strange that glibc would do this unless there was some performance
> reason on past kernels to do it?

Are you sure thats not evolution being built with a debugging malloc of
some kind ?