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Malloc not trimming sbrk space once it fills up

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:05:53 +0100
Subject: Malloc not trimming sbrk space once it fills up
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

Hi!

The attached testcase shows that once morecore fails for the first time
and malloc needs to fall back into mmap arena, no more sbrk trimming
happens even if all chunks in mmap areas are freed.

	Jakub

Attachment: tst-malloc-trim.c
Description: Text document

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