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@@ -165,11 +165,10 @@ capacity planning.
 
 Bursts of small object allocations late in process life contribute to
 fragmentation of the heap due to arenas (slabs) used internally by Perl.
-jemalloc (tested as an LD_PRELOAD on GNU/Linux) reduces
-overall fragmentation compared to glibc malloc in long-lived processes.
-glibc malloc users may try setting C<MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_> to a lower
-value (e.g. 131072) but that may require increasing the
-C<sys.vm.max_map_count> sysctl.
+glibc malloc users should use C<MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=131072> to reduce
+fragmentation from the sliding mmap window.  jemalloc (tested as an
+LD_PRELOAD on GNU/Linux) also reduces fragmentation compared to an
+unconfigured glibc malloc in long-lived processes.
 
 =head2 Other OS tuning knobs