with jnthn's recent patch to give every thread its own free-list for the FSA, the behavior is now much nicer.
Here's a paste of a 40-core machine: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/650ff6b00a0f8dc34b9e358992e572b4 here's a 24-core box (some google compute cloud machine zoffix rents) before the patch: https://gist.github.com/zoffixznet/4e0fd3e352fbf9115d63186d5dc47340 after the patch: https://gist.github.com/zoffixznet/783f0293d65300419549321f24e5ea6a actual code used: https://gist.github.com/timo/a3a405f977840e8336f50234715e9cd4 i'm closing this bug.