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On Mon, 10 May 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Looks like a rewrite of hrealloc is definitely in order...

Just the MMAP part.  Though we might consider increasing HEAP_ARENA_SIZE;
16K isn't much on modern machinery.

> Does the bad behaviour go away if USE_MMAP is undefined?

Examination of the code suggests so, as does Clint's test result.