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This particular fragmentation issue was introduced sometime around November 2010. So it took about 5 months to find and a bit of time to fix.

> Memory fragmentation is just as bad as memory leaks.

Indeed.

I don't think so. This bug has been around since the introduction of our current chunk allocation model. So many many years.

I thought it was introduced with compartments... but perhaps not.

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