diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0ff1d9e7eb..493b0aaf9f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ configure_file(${CONFIG_HEADER_TEMPLATE}
 
 if (ALLOW_CROSS_COMPILED_TESTS OR NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
     if (BUILD_TESTING)
+        add_subdirectory(bin/mem_profile)
         add_subdirectory(tests)
         add_subdirectory(bin/system_info)
     endif()
diff --git a/bin/mem_profile/CMakeLists.txt b/bin/mem_profile/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79e45ee39e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/mem_profile/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+
+project(mem_profile C)
+
+list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake")
+
+file(GLOB PROFILE_SRC
+        "*.c"
+        )
+
+set(PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME mem_profile)
+add_executable(${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME} ${PROFILE_SRC})
+aws_set_common_properties(${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME})
+
+
+target_include_directories(${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC
+        $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include>
+        $<INSTALL_INTERFACE:include>)
+
+target_link_libraries(${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE aws-c-common)
+
+if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND NOT WIN32)
+    message(INFO " mem_profile will be built with shared libs, but you may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib to run the application")
+endif()
+
+install(TARGETS ${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME}
+        EXPORT ${PROFILE_PROJECT_NAME}-targets
+        COMPONENT Runtime
+        RUNTIME
+        DESTINATION bin
+        COMPONENT Runtime)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/mem_profile/main.c b/bin/mem_profile/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64e2179cf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/mem_profile/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0.
+ */
+
+#include <aws/common/byte_buf.h>
+#include <aws/common/clock.h>
+#include <aws/common/device_random.h>
+
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+static size_t part_size = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+int main(void) {
+    struct aws_allocator *allocator = aws_default_allocator();
+    aws_common_library_init(allocator);
+
+    struct aws_byte_buf bufs[100];
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
+        aws_byte_buf_init(&bufs[i], allocator, part_size);
+        aws_device_random_buffer(&bufs[i]);
+    }
+
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
+        aws_byte_buf_clean_up(&bufs[i]);
+    }
+
+    aws_common_library_clean_up();
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/source/allocator.c b/source/allocator.c
index e444d282aa..bfad6b8375 100644
--- a/source/allocator.c
+++ b/source/allocator.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static void *s_default_malloc(struct aws_allocator *allocator, size_t size) {
      * We use PAGE_SIZE as the boundary because we are not aware of any allocations of
      * this size or greater that are not data buffers
      */
-    const size_t alignment = sizeof(void *) * (size > (size_t)PAGE_SIZE ? 8 : 2);
+    const size_t alignment = sizeof(void *) * (size > (size_t)PAGE_SIZE ? 1 : 2);
 #if !defined(_WIN32)
     void *result = NULL;
     int err = posix_memalign(&result, alignment, size);