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Date:      Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:23:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        remy@boostworks.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages. 
Message-ID:  <52718.976130627@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:07:07 %2B0100." <200012061907.UAA31917@luxren2.boostworks.com> 

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In message <200012061907.UAA31917@luxren2.boostworks.com>, Remy Nonnenmacher wr
ites:
>OK. In fact my problem was just a printf that allocated a buffer via
>__smakebuf at the very last moment (when all memory was allocated).
>This prevent free() to give back all previous pages up to this one. The
>problem was _not_ in malloc.c.
>
>Anyway, i learned a lot from hacking the source to catch the caller.
>Thanks.

Yeah, I often find a "print a traceback" function missing in libc...

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