$ strace -e mmap2,munmap perl -e '{"x" x 1048576}{"x" x 1048576}{"x" x 1048576}' 2>&1 |tail -6 mmap2(NULL, 1052672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb740c000 mmap2(NULL, 1052672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb730b000 mmap2(NULL, 1052672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb720a000 munmap(0xb720a000, 1052672) = 0 munmap(0xb730b000, 1052672) = 0 munmap(0xb740c000, 1052672) = 0