On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Jeff Donner <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > If this is the case then memory should not keep on increase albeit how long process may run. right?
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