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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: malloc() prob in 2.1R? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:49:42 EST."
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:56:38 -0800
From: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
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> Not at all surprising.  The memory allocator in 2.1 allocates memory
> for the next power of two greater than or equal to (size +
> malloc_overhead).  So, the next power of two greater than or equal to
> (4096 + a_small_amount) is 8192.  -current uses a different allocator
> and doesn't over-allocate in this way.
> 
That is STUPID!  (perhaps easy to implement, but stupid nevertheless)

Boy I'm glad phk put his new malloc in.

This is a HUGE memory waster!

(I'm gonna compile 2.1 libc using -current malloc)

Steven