Description of problem:

grep errors with:
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 *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): ***
Aborted.
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when doing recursive grep in /var/log, other places.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp 0x86_64,
Linux 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp i686

How reproducible:

Consistently on i686 and x86_64 boxes Centos4.4. Recently upgraded from CentOS
4.3 to 4.4. 
I have large /var/log directories with plenty of gzipped logs.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /var/log
2. grep -ri "Check Spelling & Mumble" *
3. (or) grep -ri "Check Spelling & Mumble" *gz
  
Actual results:
Fails with:
 *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): ***
Aborted.

Sometimes: 
 *** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x000.... ***
Aborted.

Expected results:
No failure.

Additional info:

Grepping 7GB of compressed logs on one server, grepping 4GB logs on other
server. x86_64 Server had 35M or 3G+cache ram free; i686 server had 374M ram
free, 960M+cache.