memory leak in free()

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 04:07, Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This simple code demonstrates the problem:
> 
> int main ()
> {
>     char* buffer1;
>     char* buffer2;
>     int size = 2*1024*1024 + 1;
> 
> for(;;) {
>         buffer1 = (char *) malloc(size);
>         buffer2 = (char *) malloc(size);
> 
>         free(buffer1);
>         free(buffer2);
>  }
> }
> 
> The second free() does not free allocated memory if size >2Mb.
> 
> On 6.1-STABLE all is OK.

This is probably an issue with jemalloc, I've cc'd jasone@ who wrote the
new malloc() in HEAD.

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