diff --git a/packages/devel/gperftools/package.mk b/packages/devel/gperftools/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b43f11c53..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/gperftools/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-# Copyright (C) 2021-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
-
-PKG_NAME="gperftools"
-PKG_VERSION="2.9.1"
-PKG_SHA256="ea566e528605befb830671e359118c2da718f721c27225cbbc93858c7520fee3"
-PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-PKG_SITE="https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools"
-PKG_URL="https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/releases/download/gperftools-${PKG_VERSION}/gperftools-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
-PKG_LONGDESC="Google Performance Tools"
-
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-minimal --disable-debugalloc --disable-static"
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/scripts/kodi-config b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/scripts/kodi-config
index 668b706101..5844ebc6c0 100755
--- a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/scripts/kodi-config
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/scripts/kodi-config
@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ else #arm
   echo "MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=8192" >> /run/libreelec/kodi.conf
 fi
 
-if [ -f /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so ] ; then
-  echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so" >> /run/libreelec/kodi.conf
-fi
-
 if [ -f /storage/.config/kodi.conf ] ; then
   cat /storage/.config/kodi.conf >>/run/libreelec/kodi.conf
 fi
diff --git a/packages/virtual/libc/package.mk b/packages/virtual/libc/package.mk
index e66b9f745c..01f646d185 100644
--- a/packages/virtual/libc/package.mk
+++ b/packages/virtual/libc/package.mk
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ PKG_SECTION="virtual"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Meta package for installing various tools and libs needed for libc"
 
 if [ "${TARGET_ARCH}" = "arm" ]; then
-  PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET arm-mem gperftools"
+  PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET arm-mem"
   PKG_DEPENDS_INIT="$PKG_DEPENDS_INIT arm-mem:init"
 fi