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[Bug malloc/14581] glibc leaks memory and do not reuse after free (leading to unlimited RSS growth)


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14581

Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |siddhesh at redhat dot com
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #9 from Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com> 2013-05-13 09:30:23 UTC ---
This is not a bug; the allocator is working as designed and does not claim to
be immune to fragmentation.  If there are better strategies to reduce
fragmentation, then patches to implement them are welcome on libc-alpha.

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