1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/ralloc.c b/src/ralloc.c
index b0134ea730a..9a4b1ada229 100644
--- a/src/ralloc.c
+++ b/src/ralloc.c
@@ -1204,9 +1204,15 @@ r_alloc_init (void)
   UNBLOCK_INPUT;
 #else
 #ifndef SYSTEM_MALLOC
-  /* Give GNU malloc's morecore some hysteresis
-     so that we move all the relocatable blocks much less often.  */
-  __malloc_extra_blocks = 64;
+  /* Give GNU malloc's morecore some hysteresis so that we move all
+     the relocatable blocks much less often.  The number used to be
+     64, but alloc.c would override that with 32 in code that was
+     removed when SYNC_INPUT became the only input handling mode.
+     That code was conditioned on !DOUG_LEA_MALLOC, so the call to
+     mallopt above is left unchanged.  (Actually, I think there's no
+     system nowadays that uses DOUG_LEA_MALLOC and also uses
+     REL_ALLOC.)  */
+  __malloc_extra_blocks = 32;
 #endif
 #endif