pfMemory - does it combine?

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Keith Babarovich (keithb++at++wormald.com.au)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:20:11 +1000 (AEST)

If I pfMalloc a number of blocks of memory and latter
I free up these blocks, do they get combined back together?

or in other words,

Does pfMemory combine adjacent free blocks into larger
free blocks or does it continually fragment into small and small blocks?

I am having a problem with our performer application continually using
mroe and more memory until the machine crashes. While we can't seem to
find any place where we are loosing allocated memory I am worried that
our database paging is fragmenting the memory into small chunks that can
not be used and then having to allocate more.

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