Re: /proc/<n>/maps growing...

[Alan Cox]

> > Even worse, it means people not using -ac kernels cannot malloc a lot of
> > memory but by recompiling the kernel.
> 
> Hey guys. Let's calm down a bit, and look at the problem.
> 
> Why the hell is glibc doing something so stupid in the first place? Yes,
> we can work around it, but it sounds like the glibc apporoach is slow and
> stupid even if we _did_ work around it. Mind explaining what the logic of
> "fixing" the kernel is?

Its two problems

1.	mprotect not doing the right resource checks
2.	mprotect not doing the simple merges

The resource one is a kernel problem. I am curious why only specific apps
trip the second case