On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:05:26PM +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote:
> My question is what could be the reason for this drastic increase in vsz
> column of ps -aux output? Is it because of unfreed malloced memory? Why
> rss is stable? Somebody could help me when will the vsz(virtual
> size) increases?
Sounds like you're allocating memory and not freeing it. Once the
your program is finished with the memory and then allocates more
the unused memory will be swapped out, and so not contribute to
the residant size.
David.
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