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Sign up free →Model servers like Ollama, vLLM, and TGI experience memory creep caused by glibc's heap allocator fragmenting and not returning pages to the OS
Setting MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=65536 and MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=65536 before process startup resolves the issue without code changes
Testing on 13 diffusion models showed dramatic improvement: before the fix, OOM occurred at 52GB after 17 hours; after the fix, memory remained stable at ~1.2GB indefinitely
Full benchmark data and testing script available on GitHub at brjen/pytorch-memory-fix repository
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