On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, V.Ravikumar <[email protected]> wrote: > I've a daemon process and I'm allocating heap memory for big character > buffers using malloc/free. > Each can take 5MB. > > Though I freed/deleted memory allocated for the buffers, the increased > memory during the allocation time is not re-claiming back.This I observed > using top command.
Yes, I think it's glibc - it may keep your memory, with the idea that you'll request it again soon anyway. I don't know if there's a way to force it to give the memory back to Linux. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
