KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 04:55, Jason Evans wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Is there a simple way to revert to the old malloc? Just back out
> > malloc.c?
>
> Yes, you can revert to revision 1.92 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c .

I finally got around to trying this and it seems that reverting it has reduced 
KDE's memory consumption considerably..

Perhaps it's allocation pattern is particularly pathological?

I can supply debugging information about it if you tell me what you need.

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