diff --git a/src/page.c b/src/page.c
index fdc2c612..ab9152be 100644
--- a/src/page.c
+++ b/src/page.c
@@ -357,7 +357,9 @@ void _mi_page_unfull(mi_page_t* page) {
   mi_page_set_in_full(page, false); // to get the right queue
   mi_page_queue_t* pq = mi_heap_page_queue_of(heap, page);
   mi_page_set_in_full(page, true);
-  mi_page_queue_enqueue_from_at_start(pq, pqfull, page);  // insert at the start to increase the chance of reusing full pages (?)
+  mi_page_queue_enqueue_from(pq, pqfull, page);  
+  // we may instead insert at the front to increase reuse but it slows down some benchmarks like `alloc-test1`
+  // mi_page_queue_enqueue_from_at_start(pq, pqfull, page);  
 }
 
 static void mi_page_to_full(mi_page_t* page, mi_page_queue_t* pq) {