What do the 'size' numbers mean in the windbg !heap output?

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Published on 2010-04-24T23:56:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 0:03 UTC
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I see output like this in my DMP file:

Heap entries for Segment00 in Heap 00150000
    00150640: 00640 . 00040 [01] - busy (40)
    00150680: 00040 . 01808 [01] - busy (1800)
    00151e88: 01808 . 00210 [01] - busy (208)
    00152098: 00210 . 00228 [00]
    001522c0: 00228 . 00030 [01] - busy (22)
    001522f0: 00030 . 00018 [01] - busy (10)
    00152308: 00018 . 00048 [01] - busy (3c)

The WinDbg docs say this:

    Heap entries for Segment00 in Heap 250000
                        0x01 - HEAP_ENTRY_BUSY            
                        0x02 - HEAP_ENTRY_EXTRA_PRESENT   
                        0x04 - HEAP_ENTRY_FILL_PATTERN    
                        0x08 - HEAP_ENTRY_VIRTUAL_ALLOC   
                        0x10 - HEAP_ENTRY_LAST_ENTRY      
                        0x20 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG1  
                        0x40 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG2  
Entry     Prev    Cur   0x80 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG3  

Address   Size    Size  flags       (Bytes used)    (Tag name)
00250000: 00000 . 00b90 [01] - busy (b90)
00250b90: 00b90 . 00038 [01] - busy (38) 
00250bc8: 00038 . 00040 [07] - busy (24), tail fill (NTDLL!LDR Database)

The spacing is weird in the docs though. Does that mean 'entry address' and 'prev size' and 'cur size', or are the 'entry' 'prev' and 'cur' not for the line below?

What does 'prev size' and 'cur size' mean? Especially with regard to 'bytes used'. What is the difference between 'bytes used' and 'cur size'?

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