It may not address the memory issue, but can you build 3.10 with the same options you used for 3.6? It is currently a debugging build:
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# WARNING!!! #
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# This code was compiled with a debugging option. #
# To get timing results run ./configure #
# using --with-debugging=no, the performance will #
# be generally two or three times faster. #
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