mallopt.3: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-08-30 05:02:10 -07:00
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@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ and since glibc 2.15 by default.
In some versions of the allocator there was no limit on the number
of created arenas (e.g., CentOS 5, RHEL 5).
When running programs on newer glibc versions,
these applications may exhibit high contention when accessing arenas.
When employing newer glibc versions, applications may in
some cases exhibit high contention when accessing arenas.
In these cases, it may be beneficial to increase
.B M_ARENA_MAX
to match the number of threads.
@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ This is the limit, in number of arenas created, at which the system
configuration will be examined to evaluate a hard limit on the
number of created arenas.
The computed limit is implementation-defined
and is usually a multiple of the number of available cores.
and is usually a multiple of the number of available CPUs.
Once the limit is computed, the result is final and constrains
the total number of arenas.
See