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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.5 v2] libxc: don't leak buffer
 containing the uncompressed PV kernel
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:12:13 +0000
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On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 11:03 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html also talks about
> various dynamic thresholds for growing and shrinking the heap. My guess
> is that we are bouncing up and down over some threshold with every other
> reboot.

IOW I'm not overly concerned with this apparent bi-modality, so long as
the amount isn't increasing in the long term...

I think the original patch should go in.

Ian.