diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d18f210..912520c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-04-27  Patrick Lam	 <plam@mit.edu>
+	    Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
+	* src/fcstr.c (FcStrBufChar):
+
+	Reduce transient memory usage during config file parsing
+	by allocating smaller buffers (64 seems to be a magic number).
+	
 2006-04-27  Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
 
 	* src/fcinit.c: (FcMemReport):
@@ -7,7 +14,6 @@
 	Eliminate pattern freezing
 
 2006-04-27  Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
-
 	reviewed by: Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu>
 
 	* src/fccache.c: (FcDirCacheUnlink), (FcDirCacheHashName),
@@ -24,18 +30,6 @@
 	Bump cache magic.
 	Don't include /fonts.cache-2 in cache hash construction.
 
-2006-04-26  Keith Packard  <keithp@keithp.com>
-
-	* src/fccache.c: (FcDirCacheUnlink), (FcDirCacheOpen),
-	(FcDirCacheWrite):
-	* src/fcfreetype.c: (FcFreeTypeQuery):
-	* src/fcint.h:
-	* src/fclist.c: (FcListAppend):
-	* src/fcmatch.c: (FcFontRenderPrepare):
-	* src/fcpat.c: (FcPatternDestroy), (FcPatternBaseFreeze),
-	(FcPatternFreeze), (FcPatternGet), (FcPatternDuplicate),
-	(FcStrUnserialize):
-
 2006-04-25  Patrick Lam	 <plam@mit.edu>
 	* ChangeLog:
 	* README:
diff --git a/src/fcstr.c b/src/fcstr.c
index 32c3a0a..e75ecb9 100644
--- a/src/fcstr.c
+++ b/src/fcstr.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ FcStrBufChar (FcStrBuf *buf, FcChar8 c)
 	}
 	else
 	{
-	    size = buf->size + 1024;
+	    size = buf->size + 64;
 	    new = malloc (size);
 	    if (new)
 	    {