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It sounds like you have specialized memory management needs that malloc wasn't
designed to handle.  Writing your own memory management is the way to go.  Without
knowing more about the behavior of your program I couldn't tell you much more, 
except that memory management is a well understood subset of computer science with
extensive documentation.  Many computer science texts in algorithms or operating
systems speak extensively on these issues.  If you're lucky your memory requests
come in fixed sizes for at least a subset of the requests...it's quite efficient
to manage pools of fixed size memory.  For variable sizes, you'll have to use
something like a closest fit with coalescence.  Another good source of information
are magazines like Dr. Dobbs.  I'd bet the Dr. has run at least a couple of articles
about memory management a year for years and years.  I seem to remember an issue
devoted to it within the last couple of years.

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