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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:
> The problem is addressed in 2.2 which a new malloc/free (phkmalloc),
> but since Netscape is statically linked on BSDI's BSD/OS, we depend on
> them having a non-leaking malloc... (AFAIK)

Does phkmalloc actually give memory back to the OS, i.e. can a process
which has a footprint of 7MB (both VM and actual) actually shrink in size?
I have heard conflicting answers as to if this is even possible with 
unix..